Monitoring network traffic

[heimdall2000]

What software is available to monitor traffic across our LAN, Win95 peer to peer. I want to see which machines suffer the greatest traffic, is it my print server, mail server or accounts database server, etc.
I know WinNT contains network monitor agent, can this be used or are there other products that can be used.

Thanks

Steve

[DDavidson]

Hi

Try here http://32bit.bhs.com/list.asp?whicharray=CategoryArray&ny=62&nx=8&category=96 you will have to dig thru the list but there a few utils in there either free or shareware.

Some of the "commercial" software will cost big bucks, but you get what ya pay for http://discussions.virtualdr.com/smile.gif



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Don Davidson
Network Engineer
Nutrocker's Homepage (http://www.nutrocker.co.uk)

don@nutrocker.co.uk

[boyblue]

Just a general note to keep in mind.

Heavy system monitoring EAT LOTS OF COMPUTING POWER.

Again, just a general note, you are probably OK but people can get carried away monitoring their systems. It's easy to forget that these background programs can add up to a lot of computing power.

[badbaddog]

what's the level of monitoring you want?
what's your budget?
There are hardware network monitoring devices that take some load off your software, but a sophisticated monitoring bundle can cost ya a lot.