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LAN Party Forums => Support Group => Started by: Agent4054 on July 16, 2007, 01:27:41 PM

Title: Network Monitor
Post by: Agent4054 on July 16, 2007, 01:27:41 PM

Anyone know of a good network traffic monitor program? Say, if I wanted to see what files were being accessed and downloaded from my machine via windows file sharing... I've googled the crap out of it. The only program that I found that did exactly that was NetAware, but it is a terribly annoying piece of software.

Any other suggestions?

Title: Re: Network Monitor
Post by: The Shoctor on July 16, 2007, 01:51:49 PM

I took a look around, and you know I don't see anything else like it. But I did see something cool.. It would work if we used hubs instead of switched, but it would snarf file copies off the wire. LOL

Title: Re: Network Monitor
Post by: Pride on July 16, 2007, 02:15:31 PM

There's actually a plug in for trillian that does this.

Title: Re: Network Monitor
Post by: The Shoctor on July 16, 2007, 03:15:36 PM

Got a link?

Title: Re: Network Monitor
Post by: Mr.Tibbs on July 16, 2007, 08:21:43 PM

Ethereal

We use it at CLN constantly. Works great, just do a google search. Or I can give you the program from CLN, if you don't want to go hunting.

Title: Re: Network Monitor
Post by: decepticon on July 16, 2007, 10:17:17 PM

That works for packet sniffing, but he's looking for a file transfer monitoring program.  Using ethereal would take too long to investigate all the packets just to find the filename.

Title: Re: Network Monitor
Post by: Agent4054 on July 17, 2007, 12:31:57 AM

I checked the trillian website earlier today, but the plugin site was down for maintenance(still is)

Title: Re: Network Monitor
Post by: The Shoctor on July 17, 2007, 06:49:44 AM

And if you wanted real time info from ethereal, well, don't plan on doing anything else.

Title: Re: Network Monitor
Post by: llDayo on July 17, 2007, 09:05:41 AM

You could get an Xray machine and look at the network cable at the back of your monitor.

Title: Re: Network Monitor
Post by: OWN3R on July 17, 2007, 09:01:35 PM

cough cough , bit torrent , cough,  Solar Wins , cough cough, dang this sore throat of mine is bad..

Title: Re: Network Monitor
Post by: decepticon on July 18, 2007, 06:38:58 AM

Hmm, I'm actually interested in that.  I think I'll download the 'trial'.  And 'try' it before I 'buy' it.

Title: Re: Network Monitor
Post by: G1ZM0 on July 18, 2007, 08:27:35 AM

This is cool, but it just gives you a snapshot.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Networking/PsFile.mspx

Can you do auditing on the folder?