<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>I like wireshark for short bursts when trynig to see what is going on. For what I want to do I want to sniff 24x7 and be able to graph by device if needed.</div><div><br></div><div>For your Sharp issue, you could write a script in Perl, Python, etc to proxy the connections. That script the logs all data to a file. </div><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Darrell Golliher" <darrell@golliher.net><br><b>To: </b>"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale@ale.org><br><b>Cc: </b>"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale@ale.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, August 12, 2015 2:31:36 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Monitor Internet Traffic<br><div><br></div><div>Anybody have a easy to use way to listen in on a network connection that uses a line based text protocol? In other words something that taps into a telnet connection, but on a custom port. I’m looking for something to show me exactly what is transpiring between my networked Sharp TV and the Sharp remote control app. </div><div><br></div><div>I tried wireshark, though I’m completely unskilled in its use. What it produces for me does not look like the text based traffic I’m looking for.</div><div><br></div><div>tia,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Darrell</div><div><br></div><div class="mailbox_signature"><br>—<div>http://golliher.net</div></div><br><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><p>On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Chuck Payne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:terrorpup@gmail.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:terrorpup@gmail.com">terrorpup@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;" data-mce-style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><p>Chris, <br></p><div><br></div><p>Wireshark, in console mode is tshark. TCPDUMP is good. But if you <br>wanting some graphs, you could set up your pi as the default gw use <br>some great tools with debian like <br></p><div><br></div><p>awffull <br>iptool <br>ntop, but make sure you set up a password or change the port. <br></p><div><br></div><p>But that just my 2 cents. <br></p><div><br></div><p>On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Chris Fowler <br><cfowler@outpostsentinel.com> wrote: <br>> I have a TP-LINK ADSL2+ dual-band wireless router. It offers me no features <br>> to monitor traffic. I'm thinking about buying a ADSL2+ bridge at Frys and <br>> then tapping the CAT-5 from it to the TP-LINK to sniff. Are there any good <br>> Linux packages to do this? Something I could run on the Pi2? <br>> <br>> I'll use DHCP to statically assign each device in the house with an ip <br>> address. I will then look at traffic based on IP. I'm trying to get an <br>> idea of how much bandwidth we are using and when so that when I need it most <br>> I can throttle it down. I'll know where it is coming from. <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________ <br>> Ale mailing list <br>> Ale@ale.org <br>> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale <br>> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at <br>> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo <br>> <br></p><div><br></div><p><br></p><div><br></div><p>-- <br>Terror PUP a.k.a <br>Chuck "PUP" Payne <br>----------------------------------------- <br>Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. <br>----------------------------------------- <br>openSUSE -- Terrorpup <br>openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member <br>skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup <br>freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein <br>Register Linux Userid: 155363 <br></p><div><br></div><p>Have you tried SUSE Studio? Need to create a Live CD, an app you want <br>to package and distribute , or create your own linux distro. Give SUSE <br>Studio a try. <br>_______________________________________________ <br>Ale mailing list <br>Ale@ale.org <br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale <br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at <br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo <br></p></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale<br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div></body></html>