Re: [Ethereal-users] Is ethereal the right software for me?

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Niklas Abrahamsson (KI/EAB) wrote:

> What Im looking to do is to be able to get statistics on daily and
> weekly usage of the network, for up and downlink distrubution of
> protocols and port usage etc.
>
> From what I've been able to read from the first pages of the ethereal
> homepage this should be able to be done by the different filters availible. 
>
> What I haven't been able to understand is if it is possible to do
> some  kind of batch processing of the large tcpdumpfiles I will get
> (probably around 200mb files). Is this possible?

Not really with Ethereal - for batch processing, you probably want 
Tethereal.

Look at the "-z" flag (to run various statistics) and the "-q" flag (to 
suppress the printing of the per-packet information).