FW: Traffic Analysis and Bandwidth Testing

[<adisegna () siscocorp com>]

Oops. I forgot that Ethereal had the Summary info under the Stats menu.

        -----Original Message----- 
        From: DiSegna Arthur 
        Sent: Fri 10/29/2004 7:18 PM 
        To: security-basics () securityfocus com 
        Cc: 
        Subject: Traffic Analysis and Bandwidth Testing
        
        

                Does anyone know of a good whitepaper on the subject of software traffic analysis and bandwidth 
testing?  I have been tasked with checking the security/encryption of some software as it traverses the network and to 
see how much bandwidth it uses. This application enters information into a backend database and information is needed 
on the amount of kilobytes/megabytes used in a session. I need some guidelines to follow. What type of variables should 
be used? Idle time, connection length, options selected when data is sent, type of transactions, start to finish times, 
etc... I was thinking of using a protocol analyzer like Ethereal for the security portion. I know Ethereal will show 
the number of bytes captured, however, addition of each packet captured may be a little time consuming... Also I would 
prefer to use open source software for this project.

        Thanks 

        AD