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Does anyone know of a resource or website that includes an analysis of the most common types of network traffic (e.g TCP, UDP, ARP, ICMP etc). If so i'd be very greatful for a link :)
e.g
80% of traffic is TCP
10% of traffic is UDP
etc
Thanks in advance for any help,
Mikester2
What are you going to use it for? Why do you want to know? Traffic on the Internet or local LAN? You could just put a sniffer up on your local LAN (assuming you have permission) and observe the traffic.
Not sure I understand why.
I agree with ric-o just run ethereal for a while and see whta kind of breakdown you get for the traffic over your network.
In my extensive experience gleaned by watching my network I can give you are pretty accurate answer. In order of volume highest to lowest:-
1. Shopping, (often for shoes).
2. Personal Banking
3. Checking horoscopes.
4. Reading inspirational material from religious web sites
5. UDP, (the DNS requests for the above activity)
6. ARP - this is rare and is only seen when the user turns on the computer. After that no local assets seem to be used.
Laughing??? Don't... It's a fact!!!! :(
As noted above it is higly dependent on your network configuration, what it's used for and who uses it. You need to create your own baselines..