Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!dptg!mtunf!fstop
From: fstop@mtunf.ATT.COM (Paul Hanson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Summary: TCP/IP/Ethernet Protocol Analyzer - which to buy (long)
Message-ID: <1273@mtunf.ATT.COM>
Date: 30 Aug 90 16:45:55 GMT
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Organization: AT&T BL Middletown/Lincroft NJ USA
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Have you heard of or seen the product called LANCE from an outfit named Micro
Tech? I am evaluating remote monitoring systems. This is the best one I've seen
so far. They just came out to give me a slide show. I intend to see and perhaps
buy one in the near future.

I need to centrally monitor a number of Ethernet LANs around the country.
There are many products that have the excellent statistics, topology maps,
reports etc. but which are designed to operate with a specific vendors bridges
or routers (e.g. Vitalink WAN Manager, Wellfleet's SNMP NMS, Cabletron, 
Racal Interlan's LANCentral). There are only a few that have been designed
to use their own monitoring probe. Micro Tech is the only one that I know of
that has announced product. They just started shipping their product,
LANCE, in June.

the LANCE network management station software wants to run on a high res,
color graphics workstation with a multitasking operating system (e.g. SUN
SPARCstation 1+). You can contact the company directly. In Anaheim, CA,
their number is 800-999-9MTI or 714-970-0300.

Paul Hanson
AT&T Bell Labs
West Long Branch, NJ
(201) 870-7559