Network Traffic Collection

Thu Feb 23 20:19:24 UTC 2012

I want to be able to see information like how much traffic an ip send
over a period of time, what machines it talked to etc from this
perspective it should be IP based but I would really like to know how
other people do it.

Best,
Ali

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Jeroen Massar <jeroen at unfix.org> wrote:
> On 2012-02-23 21:11 , Maverick wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to collect traffic traffic from pcap file and store it in
>> a database but really confused how to organize it. Should I organize
>> it on connection basis/ flow basis or IP basis.
>>
>> It might be an effort to write a customized traffic analysis tool like
>> wireshark with only required functionality. I would really appreciate
>> if someone can give me direction on write way of organizing the data
>> because right now I only see individual packets and no way of putting
>> them in some order.
>
> Does this all not completely depend on what you actually want to do with
> it? You might want to start there instead of the other way around.
>
> Greets,
>  Jeroen
>