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From: lrogers@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Larry Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: PC based, simple enet monitor needed
Message-ID: <5914@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
Date: 14 Feb 91 14:08:49 GMT
Expires: 14 Feb 91 14:08:48 GMT
Reply-To: lrogers@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Larry Rogers)
Organization: David Taylor Research Center, Bethesda, MD
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Hi,
	Has anyone out there recently evaluated simple commercial ethernet
monitors?  We are looking for an inexpensive PC based package that will run 
with a 3c503 Ethernet card.  
The package must have:
	Traffic -	Utilization, Peak, Collision count
	Ability to store data and retrieve for later analysis
	MSDOS, EGA graphics capability
	Real time display

We would like :
	C program interface for additional analysis programs that are written
		in house
	Ability to store data in spreadsheet format
	Audible alarm when utilization is exceeded
	Count how many "users" access a given ethernet, if not IP, address

For those who are interested, we need this as a temporary monitor of a
hub for our campus wide network.  We have to use a baseband cable to
"bridge" together two 5MB broadband systems.  This cable is a central
point of failure and we need to monitor continously.  We will be
getting a more sophisticated network monitoring system in the future,
but we need the monitoring now.
Thanks
Larry