Re: Monitor Network Traffic

John Pilgrim (pilgrim@muse.sfusd.k12.ca.us)
Tue, 4 Jun 1996 12:15:41 EDT

Larry Niebur <lniebur@aea2.k12.ia.us> wrote:
>One of my schools would like to be able to monitor their network traffic-
>not file server access. They do not have intelligent hubs, so SNMP is not
>a solution for them. Any suggestions?
>
>Apple at one time sold a Macintosh program called Inter Poll. Is it still
>available, and would it monitor network traffic?

I have used with success EtherPeek by AG Systems. It sets your computer's
NIC card into "promiscuous" mode, so that it accepts all packets (rather
than only those addressed to that particular NIC's "physical" MAC [media
access control] address), and decodes/analyzes all the AppleTalk, TCP/IP,
Netware and other packet traffic on your Ethernet network.

AG Systems has other products that do related monitoring and analysis
functions, but I haven't used any of them.

Hope this helps!

John

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Horace Mann Academic Middle School
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