1 Rate is a swiss-army-knife command-line traffic analysis tool, designed
2 to help a network administrator to see what is happening at a router at
3 the moment. Unlike tcpdump(1), rate uses statistical and stream-oriented
4 methods, and will never produce an output stream at a speed beyond human
5 perception. The output is less accurate, however. Rate features four
6 different operating modes, designed to perform the following tasks:
7 estimating overall traffic rates, determining nodes generating the
8 highest traffic, determining connections and flows generating the highest
9 traffic and extracting strings from packets.
11 Author: <mtg@elsat.net.pl>
12 WWW: http://s-tech.elsat.net.pl/