[KLUG Members] Monitoring Tool for Networks

[Todd Pillars]

This is from an website that I mentioned at the 1-20 Meeting 
Network World Fusion http://www.nwfusion.com

The _free_ prog is available at http://objectplanet.com/probe/

It looks to be a great tool for monitoring your network. Is 
java based and there is a Linux tarball

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Today's focus:  Way cool network monitoring

By Mark Gibbs

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Network Probe is also a Java applet that monitors network 
traffic and analyzes protocols. It operates in real time and 
data giving detailed information about hosts and protocols is 
displayed in your Web browser. The network information can be 
searched, sorted, and filtered by protocols, hosts, 
conversations, and network interfaces.

Installation is painless and adds a packet driver that the 
Java-based monitor applet uses to watch network traffic. You 
provide user names and passwords to control access.
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Once loaded in your browser, Network Probe displays, in the top 
half of the browser window, a table showing protocols, hosts or 
conversations. There are also variant displays that provide per 
host and per conversation details.

In the bottom half of the browser window a graph is displayed 
showing the data from the table above. And the table and the 
graph are updated in realtime. Way cool.

The Network Probe Server can run on M$, Linux, FreeBSD, 
MacOS X, and Solaris Intel with Java 1.1.8 runtime or later 
installed and a network card with promiscuous mode 
capability.

The Network Probe Client can be any web browser with Java 
support (IE, Netscape, Opera, Mozilla).
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</Article>

Maybe a mailing list for Tools/Utilities like this?

Todd