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Mon Feb 6 08:24:58 UTC 2006

folk have asked me to summarize.  so here it goes

"Justin M. Streiner" <streiner at cluebyfour.org> and Nicolas Strina
<nicolas.strina at noc.ip-man.net> recommended the nfdump nfsen pair,

    http://nfsen.sourceforge.net
    http://nfdump.sourceforge.net

Chris Kuethe <chris.kuethe at gmail.com> and Peter Wohlers
<pedro at whack.org> recommended ntop

    http://www.ntop.org/

Peter Wohlers <pedro at whack.org> also recommended Stager

    http://software.uninett.no/stager/?page=docs

Steven Rakick <stevenrakick at yahoo.com> recommended nSight

    http://www.obtuse.net/software/nsight

Tony Hacche <hacche at gmail.com> recommended Crannog's NetFlow
Tracker

    http://www.crannog-software.com/index.php?go=Product.ShowDetail&ProductID=1

Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net> has a tool to detect and
highlight ddos symptoms, but it does not have per-protocol sexy
graphs.  looks very useful for ddos detection, though

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i am currently playing with nfsdump/nfsen

randy