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
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