Monitoring Web Usage

Hi all,

I have a network where the customer wants to monitor web usage on the
network. I *plan* on building a linux box, with two network cards
(non-NAT), which will sit between the network and the gateway, so it
can sniff all traffic passing through. Can anyone recommend a piece of
software which will sniff the traffic (that's the easy part!), but
which will also do reverse-DNS (so I know which sites they've been to),
and will also give me an easy-to-understand report when I'm done
(easy-to-understand because ultimately, it will end up with someone
non-technical). Preferably things like bandwidth-per-site,
hits-per-site, etc, will be available, and I would like to be able to
filter by user/by site, etc. I've searched sourceforge.net, and
googled, but I'm not coming up with much (Ethereal is great, but I
can't get a desirable output from it, because it's a little
complex-looking for my needs).

TIA,
DSt.

In comp.os.linux.networking DSt <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> Hi all,

> I have a network where the customer wants to monitor web usage on the
> network. I *plan* on building a linux box, with two network cards
> (non-NAT), which will sit between the network and the gateway, so it
> can sniff all traffic passing through. Can anyone recommend a piece of
> software which will sniff the traffic (that's the easy part!), but
[..]

With other words:

http://www.ntop.org/

Good luck

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Michael Heiming wrote:

> In comp.os.linux.networking DSt <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> > Hi all,
>
> > I have a network where the customer wants to monitor web usage on the
> > network. I *plan* on building a linux box, with two network cards
> > (non-NAT), which will sit between the network and the gateway, so it
> > can sniff all traffic passing through. Can anyone recommend a piece of
> > software which will sniff the traffic (that's the easy part!), but
> [..]
>
> With other words:
>
> http://www.ntop.org/
>
> Good luck

Absolutely perfect.

Many, many thanks!

Dst.

Michael Heiming wrote:

> In comp.os.linux.networking DSt <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> > Hi all,
>
> > I have a network where the customer wants to monitor web usage on the
> > network. I *plan* on building a linux box, with two network cards
> > (non-NAT), which will sit between the network and the gateway, so it
> > can sniff all traffic passing through. Can anyone recommend a piece of
> > software which will sniff the traffic (that's the easy part!), but
> [..]
>
> With other words:
>
> http://www.ntop.org/
>
> Good luck

Absolutely perfect.

Many, many thanks!

Dst.