A Few Questions related to Network Administration and Traffic Analysis

[Marc M]

Don't forget tethereal, the text version of ethereal it is very fast. 

Marc


On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 07:39:55 -0600, Mike Klinke <lsomike at futzin.com> wrote:
> On Monday 07 March 2005 03:27, Rebel wrote:
> > I have a few questions for the traffic analysis and
> > network administration. I know there are a lot of
> > system admins here and someone can shed some light on
> > these for sure.
> >
> > I have a router, cable dsl and 3 machines connected in
> > the intranet via wireless cards and 1 via ethernet via
> > router. I have the following questions. One is the
> > Linux box and others are windows boxes running XP
> >
> > 1. From the linux box, if I try to run nmap I can see
> > open ports of all other machines which is fine. Is
> > there any other tool for port scanning and seeing what
> > services/programs are running on these windows boxes.
> >
> > 2. Lets say I want to administer packets at the router
> > level and want to see which packet is going to which
> > machine (both to and fro), what tools/tips and
> > techniques are recommended for the same.
> >
> > Thanks a Lot,
> > Regards,
> > Rebel
> >
> 
> iptraf, ethereal, tcpdump are all good packet capture applications.
> Snort ( www.snort.org ), an intrusion detection application, make's
> very good guesses about what's running on other machines and
> another, named Nessus ( www.nessus.org ) is rather informative too.
> Ntop ( http://www.ntop.org/ntop.html ) will show you a fancy
> breakdown of your network traffic by machine/protocol/application
> etc.
> 
> Regards, Mike Klinke
> 
> 
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