Network monitoring allows you to take a look under the hood of your network to see what is actually traversing your company's information highway. Misbehaving network boards, non-business Internet ...

You may need to monitor, or mirror, a port on an Ethernet switch to debug a data protocol, check for inappropriate use of your network or resolve a security breach. Using a monitor port on a network ...

Ever wonder exactly what is being sent across your network? No, I don’t mean Web sites, movies, yada, yada…I mean in the detailed sense–the packets that comprise the lowest level of network traffic ...

As we live in the era of Information technology, network administration plays a crucial part in IT decisions for any scale of business. In this busy sector of network administration, Internet traffic ...

PktMon.exe or Packet Monitor is the new network sniffer or network diagnostic and packet monitoring tool. It is located in the Systems folder, which means you can invoke it from the Run or Command ...

Hands-on with the Pktmon network monitor Compared to a network monitor with a graphical user interface, the command-line interface of Pktmon takes a bit more time to get used to it. Before you can ...

An emerging technology for monitoring networks may be making its way to network equipment near you. Called sFlow, the technology is included in ASICs that would reside in a router or switch. The ...

Network monitors are an absolute must-have for any network administrator. But which tool, out of the thousands, should you consider for your tool kit? Jack Wallen offers up his five favorites. Image: ...

Networking performance monitoring and diagnostics (NPMD) software, whether running as an independent appliance or embedded in networking equipment, can help stave off productivity issues for internal ...

Network monitoring continues to be essential today, and the data collected from these efforts -- especially historical data -- fall into the category of big data. Network monitoring has been around in ...

Like the “Three Seashells” in Demolition Man, this trio of bright yellow network monitors created by [David Chatting] might be difficult to wrap your head around at first glance. They don’t have any ...