Re: remote capturing using tcpdump

[Carter Bullard <carter () qosient com>]

Hey Ankit,
Take a look at argus, http://qosient.com/argus.
It is trying to do what you are describing.

Carter

On Oct 8, 2010, at 6:45 AM, Ankith Agarwal wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010, Richard Huddleston <huddleston.richard () gmail com>
> said:
>
> > Like many people here, i've used tcpdump (or libpcap) to write data acquisition gadgets that then report up to some 
> > higher tier. 
> >
> > If you wanted to build one without doing all the messy libpcap and socket calls, you could chain tcpdump, a little 
> > awk, and nc (netcat) together.  It wouldn't be incredibly robust but would fall together very quickly and would be a 
> > little more what you seem to have in mind. 
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone - please excuse any typos. 
>
> Thank you for the solution. One more thing, for monitoring a remote
> client is it better to transfer the header data to the server and
> calculate the parameters or just transfer the parameters??  Is there any
> tool which directly gives all the QoS parameters as its output so that i
> can write it to the server??
>
> Regards
> Ankit
>
>
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