Diagnois network issues (packet sniffing, bandwidth testing, etc.)

[Yonatan Bokovza]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jaime at snowmoon.com [mailto:jaime at snowmoon.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 21:02
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Diagnois network issues (packet sniffing, bandwidth 
> testing, etc.)
> 
> 
> 	I have some issues at work which might be network issues.  For
> example, I sometimes see slow response times on file sharing. 
>  Can anyone
> suggest a set of tools on FreeBSD (preferably in the ports, 
> but I can use
> make if I have to) to look for problems like extra protocols, ethernet
> collisions, bandwidth utilization, etc.?
> 
> 	At worse, I'm going to spend $1500 on EtherPeek and run it on an
> iBook.  I just think that there is probably something more 
> useful and/or
> less expensive on FreeBSD.

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