network usage software on my gateway

[NoOp]

On 03/24/2009 12:28 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) 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?
> 

Perhaps:

<http://www.google.com/search?complete=0&hl=en&q=ubuntu+%2Bprotocol+monitor>

<http://www.ubuntugeek.com/network-traffic-analyzers-for-ubuntu-system.html>