[NTLUG:Discuss] RE: Traffic Sniffers

[chris.gamble@CPBINC.com]

I guess what I'm trying to do would have been useful. Basically, Im looking
for the ability to dump and save ethereal or tcpdump style recordings to and
from a file. Then use that data to create charts and graphs to show
filterable network usage (so that I can see how much traffic host a sent to
host b over a selected time period.) 

Basically I'm looking to start with a package that can summarize like below
(with the ability to filter for only certain hosts)

4k                                                                 x
3k                          x 
2k      x
1k                                             x 
    12:00 pm       1:00 pm         2:00pm       3:00pm

Any other graphs to help understand the nature of ip related traffic would
be nice. 

None of this is part of my job, I just like to study networks on the side
for personal interest.