[10274] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RMON probes .vs. sniffer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cameo Wood)
Fri Jun 27 14:38:11 1997
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 14:26:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Cameo Wood <cameo@netsys.com>
To: Peter Giza <giza@adsmart.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <33B3E845.D6265D61@adsmart.net>
As far as FDDI, I am staying with a sniffer, Ethernet, I just leave to
the hubs internal diagnostics. Because I work primarily with a switched
product, it just isn't a priority anymore.
If on a WAN, Have you looked at the http://www.visualnetworks.com product?
rmon capable csu/dsu that looks pretty nice. Nice graphs based upon
application utilization, i.e 15% telnet, 12% HTTP, 62% ICMP... wait... 62%
ICMP?!.. oh no.. looks like Keynote/Boardwatch is flooding the network
again.
Anyway, also has nice sniffer capabilites. Sort of like Network General
meets GUI gone psycho. Almost amazingly useful. As soon as they get a DS3
capable dsu with web-based reporting, and get rid of their Microsoft NT
platform.. I think they will really be in business. But as far as FR and
reporting, troubleshooting, nothing beats this thing but a scope on the
line.
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Peter Giza wrote:
> Has/Is anyone using Axon, NetMetrix etc, or evaluated these tools
> as a replacement for a sniffer? We're trying to decide whether to
> buy one or the other. The HP product provides a lot of nice graphs
> etc, but how practical is it for diagnostics and monitoring for
> intrusion etc. TIA
>
> -pete
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