| Title: | FDDI - The Next Generation |
| Moderator: | NETCAD::STEFANI |
| Created: | Thu Apr 27 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2259 |
| Total number of notes: | 8590 |
Hi,
I need an info on FDDI monitor. A customer of ours would like
to have a tools to have statistics on FDDI, he's interested in:
-FDDI network utilization
-Errors
-Top talkers
-Protocols running on FDDI
etc.etc.
I suggested him to buy an analyzer like Tekelec, but for
for security reasons he doesn't want to buy it. The customer
is a University and he doesn't want that any people could
read the packets.
So I'd like to know if someone perhaps know if exist something
like some products that works on Ethernet (I know Watchdog for
example), that are able to produce statistics on the network
utilization BUT UNABLE to read packets.
Thanks in advance for any pointer,
Ciao Luciano Barilaro
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| 946.1 | KONING::KONING | Paul Koning, A-13683 | Fri May 07 1993 15:06 | 15 | |
That reasoning makes no sense, and you'd do the customer a service by explaining that. It takes only about an hour or so of programming to write a program that reads every packet on the network. That's simply a fact of life that goes with being on a LAN. Analyzers make it SLIGHTLY easier but that's all. That said, it's possible to do the things you asked for with an application, and such applications may be around (don't know of any off-hand). But they wouldn't be accurate at high loads, and why spend the effort reinventing the wheel when a perfectly good, easy to use, solution is available off the shelf? (If the issue is lack of money, the best answer is to put some students to work creating the software tool; won't take them long to do something simple...) paul | |||||
| 946.2 | UPSAR::THOMAS | The Code Warrior | Wed May 12 1993 07:28 | 2 | |
You can FTP a program for ULTRIX that will every packet off the LAN
(either FDDI or Ethernet). It doesn't even take an hour...
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| 946.3 | FTP what, where | CROWES::HULLEY | Wed May 12 1993 12:16 | 1 | |
Where is it located on the net? | |||||