RE: Statistics for Firewalls

[John Adams <jna-dated-1032203522.6b0d21 () retina net>]

On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Joe Matusiewicz wrote:

> At 02:54 PM 9/11/02, John Adams wrote:
>
> > I had similiar problems with ntop. What I usually do is to filter out of
> > the traffic I deem useless with a tcpdump expression.
> >
> > For example, do you really need to know every DNS connection? Hell no,
> > filter that. Filter NNTP. Filter all SMTP that isn't bound for your main
> > mail server. Filter out NetBIOS.
>
> Actually, that wasn't an option.  At the time I was most interested in 
> bandwidth usage to decide on whether to get a bigger pipe.  I needed to see 
> the whole picture.

Ahh, I suppose MRTG didn't work out for you, then? It's a much better tool 
for the job, but I bet you've already been told that. :) 

-john

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