Measuring traffic on a wireless network?

[gaikokujinkyofusho]

Hi, I was curious about the usage trends of the network (at work), not
seeing who does what (not looking to invade anyone's privacy) but
just amounts of traffic at what time of day. Does anyone know of a
package (preferably free since I do not really want to pay for
something that is just a minor curiosity) that can just make a graph or
something like of how much is coming and going on the network? Any
suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers

-Gaiko

 

[James Knott]

Hi, I was curious about the usage trends of the network (at work), not
seeing who does what (not looking to invade anyone's privacy) but
just amounts of traffic at what time of day. Does anyone know of a
package (preferably free since I do not really want to pay for
something that is just a minor curiosity) that can just make a graph or
something like of how much is coming and going on the network? Any
suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

You could use a network analyzer, such as ethereal or tcpdump, to collect &
save the data.

 

[Tauno Voipio]

Hi, I was curious about the usage trends of the network (at work), not
seeing who does what (not looking to invade anyone's privacy) but
just amounts of traffic at what time of day. Does anyone know of a
package (preferably free since I do not really want to pay for
something that is just a minor curiosity) that can just make a graph or
something like of how much is coming and going on the network? Any
suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers

-Gaiko

If you have the rights to put your computer in promiscuous
mode, have a look at ntop <http://www.ntop.org/>.