Sniffer Recommendation [7:71523]
Can someone recommend a couple of good choices for network sniffer software. My company is looking to buy a sniffer to develop a LAN baseline. Any recommendations will be appreciated. Thanks JB Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7i=71523t=71523 -- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Sniffer Recommendation [7:71523]
EtherPeek from WildPackets, formerly AG Group. www.wildpackets.com -Original Message- From: J B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 8:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sniffer Recommendation [7:71523] Can someone recommend a couple of good choices for network sniffer software. My company is looking to buy a sniffer to develop a LAN baseline. Any recommendations will be appreciated. Thanks JB Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7i=71531t=71523 -- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Sniffer Recommendation [7:71523]
Thanks JB Daniel Cotts wrote: EtherPeek from WildPackets, formerly AG Group. www.wildpackets.com -Original Message- From: J B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 8:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sniffer Recommendation [7:71523] Can someone recommend a couple of good choices for network sniffer software. My company is looking to buy a sniffer to develop a LAN baseline. Any recommendations will be appreciated. Thanks JB Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7i=71540t=71523 -- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Sniffer Recommendation [7:71523]
if you want a performance baseline then you don't really need a protocol analyzer. We use solarwinds to monitor the network nodes via snmp and it keeps a running database of utilization across all our links. Perfect for trending usage and patterns. It also has many other good tools: notification of outages, syslog, tftp, etc. -Original Message- From: J B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 6:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sniffer Recommendation [7:71523] Can someone recommend a couple of good choices for network sniffer software. My company is looking to buy a sniffer to develop a LAN baseline. Any recommendations will be appreciated. Thanks JB Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7i=71541t=71523 -- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Sniffer Recommendation [7:71523]
For grown up sniffing check out Ethereal and for LAN baseline stiff check out NTop. Best regards, Dom Stocqueler SysDom Technologies Visit our website - www.sysdom.org -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J B Sent: 27 June 2003 14:03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sniffer Recommendation [7:71523] Can someone recommend a couple of good choices for network sniffer software. My company is looking to buy a sniffer to develop a LAN baseline. Any recommendations will be appreciated. Thanks JB Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7i=71553t=71523 -- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sniffer Recommendation [7:71523]
J B wrote in message ... Can someone recommend a couple of good choices for network sniffer software. My company is looking to buy a sniffer to develop a LAN baseline. Any recommendations will be appreciated. There are two types of worthwhile packet capture software: 1) free Unix-based 2) commerical Unix-based For option 1, you have tcpdump, Ethereal, snort, and NTOP. Download them. For option 2, you have Niksun's NetVCR product for Layers 2-4 and Unispeed's Netlogger product for Layers 5-7. There are two types of packet capture infrastructure 1) Taps 2) SPAN's, mirror-ports, etc For taps, I recommend Finisar (good equipment for SAN stuff, too), or Netoptics. For SPAN ports, I highly recommend putting a Cisco Cat6k with a PFC card in every switch closet, data center, and anywhere an Ethernet cable plugs into that way you can take advantage of RSPAN (and soon to be released ERSPAN on the Sup720 modules)... This document explains how to do anything you want with RSPAN: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps708/products_data_sheet091 86a008017b753.html -dre Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7i=71566t=71523 -- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sniffer Recommendation [7:71523]
Thanks to everyone! We are going to evaluate your recommendations. JB dre wrote: J B wrote in message ... Can someone recommend a couple of good choices for network sniffer software. My company is looking to buy a sniffer to develop a LAN baseline. Any recommendations will be appreciated. There are two types of worthwhile packet capture software: 1) free Unix-based 2) commerical Unix-based For option 1, you have tcpdump, Ethereal, snort, and NTOP. Download them. For option 2, you have Niksun's NetVCR product for Layers 2-4 and Unispeed's Netlogger product for Layers 5-7. There are two types of packet capture infrastructure 1) Taps 2) SPAN's, mirror-ports, etc For taps, I recommend Finisar (good equipment for SAN stuff, too), or Netoptics. For SPAN ports, I highly recommend putting a Cisco Cat6k with a PFC card in every switch closet, data center, and anywhere an Ethernet cable plugs into that way you can take advantage of RSPAN (and soon to be released ERSPAN on the Sup720 modules)... This document explains how to do anything you want with RSPAN: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps708/products_data_sheet091 86a008017b753.html -dre Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7i=71568t=71523 -- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sniffer Recommendation [7:71523]
I use EtherPeek Everyday, I love it. But for PURE PROTOCOL ANALYSIS, I prefer Ethereal. FREE Mauricio dre wrote: J B wrote in message ... Can someone recommend a couple of good choices for network sniffer software. My company is looking to buy a sniffer to develop a LAN baseline. Any recommendations will be appreciated. There are two types of worthwhile packet capture software: 1) free Unix-based 2) commerical Unix-based For option 1, you have tcpdump, Ethereal, snort, and NTOP. Download them. For option 2, you have Niksun's NetVCR product for Layers 2-4 and Unispeed's Netlogger product for Layers 5-7. There are two types of packet capture infrastructure 1) Taps 2) SPAN's, mirror-ports, etc For taps, I recommend Finisar (good equipment for SAN stuff, too), or Netoptics. For SPAN ports, I highly recommend putting a Cisco Cat6k with a PFC card in every switch closet, data center, and anywhere an Ethernet cable plugs into that way you can take advantage of RSPAN (and soon to be released ERSPAN on the Sup720 modules)... This document explains how to do anything you want with RSPAN: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps708/products_data_sheet091 86a008017b753.html -dre Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7i=71574t=71523 -- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
