Re: Checking overall LAN utilization [7:33256]

2002-01-28 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer
At 08:41 AM 1/28/02, Peter van Oene wrote: >Related to the subject of ethernet utilization, the following paper, while >dated, provides some interesting insight. > >http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~srini/current_class/readings/B+88.pdf Yes, that's a terrific paper about Ethernet performance. I wonder if

RE: Checking overall LAN utilization [7:33256]

2002-01-28 Thread Doug Korell
I have a company that will be implementing a system that will be taking up quite a bit of bandwidth across the LAN and eventually the WAN. Since it is somewhat bandwidth intensive, they want to know what the average and peak utilization of the network is and what the peak hours are. I'm have a 550

Re: Checking overall LAN utilization [7:33256]

2002-01-28 Thread Peter van Oene
Related to the subject of ethernet utilization, the following paper, while dated, provides some interesting insight. http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~srini/current_class/readings/B+88.pdf At 09:06 AM 1/27/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Priscilla is absolutely right, its a fuzzy question. I have just two >th

Re: Checking overall LAN utilization [7:33256]

2002-01-27 Thread the-other-jason
Priscilla is absolutely right, its a fuzzy question. I have just two things to add. If the network is "mainly LAN" that suggests that there are some wide area links. Because wide area links are usually slower than local area media and are used by lots of users, congestion on them is definitely

Re: Checking overall LAN utilization [7:33256]

2002-01-25 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer
At 06:36 PM 1/25/02, Doug Korell wrote: >I have checked individual switches and routers for utilization before but >when asked what the average utilization of an entire network (mainly LAN) >is, what exactly makes up this figure? I am working on getting a packet >sniffer which I know will help tak