Jim,
Can give you all sorts of recommendations. The real question you have to ask
your self is what are your budgetary restraints. Network monitors and
sniffers that are worth any thing can cost into the thousands. We to thought
about this avenue when we had problems.
We recently experience problems with our network and used a couple of low
cost methods for tracking network performance. On a couple of these I will
have to put you in touch with our network providers. If you wish I will
forward your email address to them if you send it to me.
One thing that I can explain is that when our problems started we were using
standard non managed hubs and then we switched to 3 com managed switches.
Once on these switches we able to gather more information on packets. Again
if you get me your email address I can send you some attachments of what
these reports look like (Good and Bad).
Tried to send over the list server and forgot I can't do this.
If you have any more questions please email or call me.
P.S. As it turned out the problem was not network related but the looking at
the switch views you can see that we eliminated the problems. Network
diagnosis is a little bit of knowledge, a lot of art, magic and witchcraft.
The latter being a joke but not too much of a joke. The better you get to
know your network the better you are able to manage it. This holds true with
professions network managers. There are too many possibilities and they are
all variable and fluid.
Stephen Breen
Director of Sales and MIS
CDI Services, Inc.
Road Support Division
3610 Deahl Court (46628)
P.O. Box 3838 (46619)
South Bend, Indiana 46628
800-492-8125 (Ext 200)
574-271-2027 (Ext 200)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jim
> Limburg
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:38 AM
> To: RBASE-L Mailing List
> Subject: [RBASE-L] - OFF TOPIC - Networking - Sniffing
>
>
> G-Day all
>
> For those who play dual roles with programming and networking, those
> who can ask network personel, or those who just know...
>
> Can anybody reccomend a good software package to monitor - sniff
> network packets that does logging, and of course as many other
> features for the least cost. We are about to be opening up our
> companies through VPNS, and maybe other methods somewhere down the
> road and really need to look more into the security learning curve.
>
> Any good advice also weclome
> Jim Limburg
