[plug] Any good network monitoring tools?

[Matthew Murray]

The best thing to do would be to check your SNMP tables on the main gateway
machine, or load tcpdump, do a couple of grep commmands and grab each IP as
it gets used.

Of couse your other option is to simply use IP masqurading on the main Linux
system.  Here we have 4 C class ranges for the internal network, nearly
every IP is used, becomes a nightmare to track down if it is not documented
correctly :(

- Matthew Murray


Matthew Murray
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-plug at linux.org.au [mailto:owner-plug at linux.org.au]On Behalf
Of David Campbell
Sent: Friday, 7 August 1998 6:48
To: plug at linux.org.au
Subject: [plug] Any good network monitoring tools?


I need to locate a good network monitoring package which can log IP
numbers and SMB addresses. I have been told that our sub-net is full and
the network admins have an Excel spreadsheet full of possibly unused
slots.

I am going to be away next week so I wanted to leave my machine powered up
in Linux for some data collection. Hopefully I can find a nice bank of 16
contiguous numbers I can uses.

Any tips/pointers much appreciated. Even just being able to locate
currently used IP numbers would help.

David Campbell

PS:
This network is roughly 80% W95, 10% NT 4.0, 5% Netware, 5% other
Average ethernet load is approx 25% (ouch!), we ARE getting a switched hub
soon.
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