cassel@DEWEY.UDEL.EDU (Boots Cassel) (10/22/86)
I am interested in information about and experiences with network monitors
and measurement devices. I am aware of the following products. If any one
knows of others I should know about, or has comments on these, I would be
grateful.
Commercial Products: Exelan Nutcracker and LANalyzer
CMC LANscan
HP LAN Protocol Analyzer
Research work: ILMON by Lewis Barnett
Mondow by Mike Minnich at Delaware
The ONR Measurement Center at Delaware
Feldmeier's work at MIT
Pointers would be appreciated. I will share the information with others if
there is interest.
Boots Cassel
cassel@dewey.udel.EDUhedrick@TOPAZ.RUTGERS.EDU (Charles Hedrick) (10/29/86)
We find the most generally useful network monitor to be a Sun. Traffic is good for general watching, and etherfind for looking at individual packets. For many purposes an IBM PC with the MIT public-domain netwatch is quite useful. It just shows you packets, with some limited ability to select based on source, dest, etc. We understand that the HP Ethernet monitor will be really great when the next software release comes out, but for the moment it's useful only when you really want to look at the bits (and want to make sure you aren't dropping any packets in a high-speed network).