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Author Topic: network activity monitor wanted  (Read 5383 times)

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network activity monitor wanted
« on: July 01, 2009, 07:50 PM »
a friend of mine (a serial downloader) is looking for a tool that will 'log' his net traffic, ie which app's are generating traffic, and how much (up and down)

Personally I have no use for anything like this so I'm of limited assistance. 

That said, we've tried several network 'meters', but none of them show traffic by application (only as a cumulative figure).

any suggestions?

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Re: network activity monitor wanted
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2009, 08:01 PM »

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Re: network activity monitor wanted
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2009, 08:14 PM »
thanks for the tip, but both the mentioned apps look (to me) like network hardware monitoring/management tools rather than traffic meters

what he's looking for (in his words) -

What I was trying to identify was what was actually chewing up my downloads when I didn't have any torrents queued to download. It may be torrent handling for uploading or something else but I can't tell as nothing seems to track the data going through the firewall and relates it back to the function generating the traffic

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Re: network activity monitor wanted
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2009, 08:19 PM »
This?
http://www.wireshark.org/

If not, I'm sure someone will chime in with an answer to suit.

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Re: network activity monitor wanted
« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2009, 09:03 PM »
No doubt - will check it out and see if it fits

many thanks!!

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