Re: Information on Bandwidth Issues

[Ghaith Nasrawi <libero () aucegypt edu>]

keith,

if by chance you're using any of the Super Stack 4400 switches, you can
setup mirror ports (i can't remember the actual naming of them, it's not
mirror) and you can only mirror one port at a time. They are very handy
to monitor traffic using a regular sniffer. maybe you'd like to mirror
your main uplink port (if you have one) and see what's going on.


On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 22:11, Keith Bucknall wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> IF possible I am looking for some advice on some problems our users, over
> the last 2 weeks our network activity has increased 10 fold, most of our
> applications are running very slow, from email, SQL databases and our
> application in particular the ones that use Tarantella Secure Desktop a RDP
> based Terminal Services.  WE have recently moved the T/S to another location
> with a 2MB WAN link and I am really looking for some advice and types of
> tools I could use to monitor the traffic from site A to B and the internal
> LAN of site A and B.
>
> We use all 3com Managed Switches and the link is provided by a managed
> service, I thought about running Ethereal but understand as we uses switches
> I would have to mirror a port on each of the 5 switches, is there a tool I
> could install on either site to monitor the traffic, my main concern is
> either with have an increase in RDP traffic or perhaps a potential problem.
>
>  
>
> Kind Regards
>
>  
>
> Keith Bucknall