BSCHMIDT@bnr.ca (Ben Schmidt, B.T.) (04/07/89)
re:Subject: Monitor Program
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I'm looking for a good monitor program for Appletalk. I would like to
use the program as a means of auditing packet activity on the net.
I've heard about a program called Carbon Copy. Is this available for
Appletalk? How well does it work? Are there any recommendations for
other monitoring packages? Please e-mail responses and I'll summarize
to the net. thanks, Jim
Response: I also would like a good monitor program, especially for
-------- EtherTalk. Carbon Copy is a for remote control of PCs over
modem lines. The connection to LAN monitoring is tenuous
unless the PC you were Carbon Copying to was running some sort of
LAN Analyzer program. Speaking of which, most LAN analyzer programs
can indiate EtherTalk protocols, but few parse them very deeply. I've
heard the Sniffer knows EtherTalk well. Traffic Watch from Farallon will
show you LocalTalk packet counts on a LocalTalk net, per LocalTalk node
but it won't give you packet contents. Apple's Peek facility will give
you LocalTalk packet contents, but it has a very small, circular buffer
which you can't enlarge. Also its parsing is limited - just the source
and destination node ids and the packet contents. Apple's InterPoll
will do NBP lookups on LocalTalk and EtherTalk, as well as average echo
packet return trip times - but it won't give you indications of traffic
levels. Farallon's Star Controller Hub for LocalTalk LANs will give
you a 0-100% figure for LocalTalk traffic on ports 1-11. Finally
FastPath 4's can be interrogated for how busy they are using LAN Ranger
from Kinetics. regards, ben