Wireshark · Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] is this the right tool to .....

[Kevin Maguire <kmaguire@xxxxxxx>]

Hi

I am wondering if ethereal is the best (or one of the best) tools to
help me with the following issues:

I would like to understand better how my many client systems access
various servers/services.  For example my mail server runs several
services - pop/imap/imap+ssl/sendmail/NFS - and I would like to
understand the load on each.  Of course each service has it's own
measuring facility (mailstats/nfsstat/syslog/...) but a
traffic/service and traffic/client picture over the course of a week
would I think help me better plan my network and size my servers.  Can
ethereal be the tool to produce such an output.

The majority of my servers are Solaris, the rest Linux.  I guess I
could code something with snoop/tcpdump and/or perl/awk scripts, but
maybe there is a pre-rolled recipe out there somewhere!?

Cheers,
Kevin

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