Re: Re: OT: Traffic analysers

[Stuart Poulton <swp@xxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

One thing to realise with tcpdump, and ethereal, ensure that you've got
the latest releases, as previous versions have had security holes which
allow root compromise of the machine running them.

Other than that great tools.

Oh, one final thing as with any monitoring, ensure you've actually got the
authorisation to use it , and don't abuse it, the new DPA means this is
now significant.

Cheers

Stuart

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, PatrickLidstone wrote:

> --- In ukha_d@y..., ant skelton <ant@a...> wrote:
> > On Monday 08 July 2002 16:32, you wrote:
> > 
> > > I need to work out how much bandwidth a (proprietary)
client-
> server app is
> > > using... can anyone recommend a (free) packet
sniffer/analyser 
> that I can
> > > install on the client PC?
> > 
> > Ethereal, from www.etheral.com. It's free, and blows away a lot
of 
> the $20k+ 
> > analysers I've used in the past. There's even a windows port for
> the 
> > OS-challenged!
> > 
> 
> I'll second that endorsement! And as an added bonus it'll also 
> analyse data captured using tcpdump!
> 
> Patrick

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