gc@vax135.UUCP (Eugene Cristofor) (01/13/86)
I am looking for some hardware/software combination to debug a 10Mb Ethernet LAN. The LAN connects diverse machines such as: VAXes running 4.2 BSD, LISP machines (Symbolics & TI), microVAXes running ULTRIX, Imagen 8/300 printers, IBM PCs, etc. As of now, when the net misbehaves, we can pretty well determine what's going on with the UNIX machines; everything else is `solved' by trial and error and a lot of cable jiggling. Ideally, the tool should be able to: * determine where the cable is broken * allow to send packets to any host connected on it * allow some selective traffic monitoring * ...etc... Any pointers greatly appreciated. Please answer by mail, if there is enough interest I will summarize to the net. Thank you. gene cristofor vax135!gc (201)949-2787