network usage software on my gateway

[David Curtis]

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:28:27 +0300
"Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)" <mihamina at lab.vectoris.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
> We reached a point our internet connexion is overheaded.
> We have about 20 workstations.
> I would like to build some stats on the network consumption: HTTP, FTP, 
> Torrents, Instant messenging, whatever...
> The goal is to find out first what kind of traffic is overheading the 
> connexion.
> 
> Thus, I look for a very good and clever software in order to detect traffic 
> kind. I would be only about detecting the working port, because MSN (for 
> example) can go through 80 port: I need the soft to detect it's an MSN 
> using 80.
> 
> What would be your advices?
> 

Since no one's replied yet, I'll make the suggestion of ntop. I don't think it will identify the actual application being used but it will output stats on port and protocol.

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David Curtis <dcurtis at uniserve.com>