SUMMARY: Monitor tcp traffic on a port

2007-12-25 3:00:00

Original question:

> Does anyone know of a tool that would allow us to monitor the traffic on a
> single tcp connection. Things like send and receive queue lengths, number
> packets, retransmits, etc.

Thanks for all the replies. The suggested tools were various sniffers
(snoop, ethereal, etc) and variations on local host network stat tools like
netstat, lsof, or ntop.

I wanted more info than you can get from netstat or lsof, and less detailed
info that you typically get from sniffers like snoop or ethereal.

I think ntop may do pretty much what I want, but I have not been able to
get the package version from Sunfreeware to run on my machines. I have a
source tar package, need to build from scratch and try it.

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