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.EDU
hedrick@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).