Quoting Raymond Norton <admin at lctn.org>: > 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? > > > -- > Raymond Norton > Little Crow Telemedia Network > > Ethereal is a handy GUI application for sniffing network traffic, tcpdump is handy on the command line. It should be noted here that, by design, you can not sniff traffic on a switch without configuring some sort of port mirroring. By default you will only get traffic destined for that switch port and broadcast traffic. Josh ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________ 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