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After capturing traffic for 5 minutes how to calculate total income and outgoing data for that period of time?

hello, I want to calculate the total incoming and outgoing traffic for an hour. After capturing data for a certain period of time. As I want to calculate how the traffic is increasing or decreasing after an hour for a day. This is important for me as I have to predict the traffic as a part of a college assaignment please help me.

traffic prediction

asked 01 Feb '17, 04:32

Junaid388
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3 Answers:

You could go spelunkng in the Statistics menu, but I would suggest using more suitable software for this, eg ntop-ng.

answered 01 Feb '17, 05:50

Jaap ♦
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Thank you for replying me. I am using wireshark 2.2.3 on windows. In Statistics menu I cannot find the option spelunkng. Hw can I find it.

(01 Feb '17, 20:01) Junaid388

Oh, that was not to be taken literally, 'go spelunking' is a figure of speech for 'go search and discover in the depth of this menu'. You can find the term here as well.

(02 Feb '17, 02:25) Jaap ♦

One way to do it is use the I/O Graph. So for example,

Go to Statistics IO Graph
Add a new plot
Set the filter to select data by MAC or IP Destination address
Choose Y-Axis of Sum(Y-field)
Set Y Field to the value you want to sum e.g. frame.len
Set the Interval to 10 mins

The height of the plot is the sum of ghe value. You can use Zoom to increase the precision.

Best regards...Paul

answered 05 Feb '17, 00:38

PaulOfford
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edited 05 Feb '17, 01:19

0	An alternative method is to add frame.len as a Packet List column, export the packet list to CSV and then use Excel to do the maths. answered 05 Feb '17, 01:20 PaulOfford 131●28●32●37 accept rate: 11%