Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!well!farallon
From: farallon@well.UUCP (Farallon Computing)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: How to monitor AppleTalk networks
Message-ID: <6089@well.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 88 06:07:18 GMT
References: <3282@phri.UUCP>
Reply-To: farallon@well.UUCP (Farallon Computing)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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The program you want is called Peek.  It's available from APDA when you get
Inside AppleTalk.  It does just what you say it does, although not a lot more.
It watches the network and records the contents of all packets.  It has a
filter (controllable) for LAP and RTMP packets.  It does not filter packets
by source or destination node.  The problems with Peek are a) it takes a good
understanding of AppleTalk to interpret the data b) it has no summary capability c) it produces a very large amount of data, more than you want to print out
and wade through most of the time.  At Farallon, we make a couple of programs,
TrafficWatch, which tells you traffic statistics (not traffic content) and
CheckNET, which tells you who's out there and what sockets they have open.  This
is probably not what you are looking for.  BTW, I heard someone at Apple was
working on a new version of Peek that addressed some of the aforementioned
"problems".  Anyone want to do rumor control on this?
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