Raymond Norton wrote: > I have a school experiencing network connectivity issues. So far it's a > mystery but looks like the network is being overwhelmed with traffic. I am > going to use ntop to look at things, but I am wondering if there is a > beater gui tool to see if the network is under high load, and if there may > be a defective switch or other device causing excessive collisions? If you have snmp-capable switches, I'd suggest setting up mrtg and/or rrdtool. I have it running here at work, and it's awesome for monitoring network traffic. MRTG: http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/ RRDTOOL: http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/ RRDtool is basically a big brother to MRTG. It's much more flexible, but it's more complex to get running. Also, if you have smart switches, you should be able to telnet/console into them and see if there are any errors happening on the switch ports. -Erik _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list