Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 08:27:02 -0600 From: CARL.P.HIRSCH@sargentlundy.com
I'd like to hear from the list as to what your preferred means of determining what the hell is going on at a packet level at the other side of a WAN/MAN/frame/etc link.
It seems to me that the means available are A) a very expensive distributed NAI Sniffer installation B) standard RMON probes and the NMS of your choice and C) A linux box with a ton of interfaces running Ethereal accessed via Xwindows/VNC/whatever.
[ snip ] "C" is close. Not sure what you mean by "a ton of interfaces". Most (all?) good managed switches have a "monitor port" or "mirror port" where they can blind copy traffic from other ports to the one that's set aside for snooping. Four-port ethernet cards are readily available. How many switches do you wish to monitor simultaneously? Even with only four ports (more in one box is certainly possible), you can have a fair amount of traffic to digest. -- Eddy Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division Phone: +1 (316) 794-8922 Wichita/(Inter)national Phone: +1 (785) 865-5885 Lawrence -- Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:23:58 +0000 (GMT) From: A Trap <blacklist@brics.com> To: blacklist@brics.com Subject: Please ignore this portion of my mail signature. These last few lines are a trap for address-harvesting spambots. Do NOT send mail to <blacklist@brics.com>, or you are likely to be blocked.