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From: mogul@wrl.dec.com (Jeffrey Mogul)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: How can ethernet traffic be measured?
Keywords: ethernet, traffice, lan
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Date: 30 Oct 90 02:01:49 GMT
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In article <8011@gollum.twg.com> david@twg.com (David S. Herron) writes:
>>    Does UNIX provide any commands for gathering network performance
>>    statistics?
>
>From my days as a system/network admin there's one piece of software
>out there I wholeheartedly reccomend..  That's NNStat
>
>NNStat is a daemon which runs on (at least) SunOS systems.  It puts
>the interface into promiscuous mode and using the NIT driver (Network
>Interface Tap) it starts grabbing all the packets it can possibly
>grab on the network.

I've been helping the NNstat crew port their software to Ultrix (4.0
or later, using the "packetfilter" facility).  Right now, they are
testing pre-release versions of a new version; when they actually
release the version that includes Ultrix support, I'm sure it will
be announced here.

Of course, anyone with a little free time could obtain the older
sources and do their own port :-).

-Jeff