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From: tjh+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Tom Holodnik)
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Subject: Re: netwatch for LocalTalk?
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Date: 7 Sep 88 17:57:11 GMT
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        APDA distributes a package called "Peek" written long ago by Richard
Andrews and Gursharan Sidhu. This is most nearly equivalent to MIT's Netwatch,
as well as being fairly standard (this was distributed with original AppleTalk
developer tools, I believe).
        Farallon Computing (Berkeley, CA) sells a package called TrafficWatch
that performs similar functions, but will also construct output in the form of
an Excel spreadsheet; this I found to be pretty useful. This is a very good
product.
        Apple's Interpoll is useful as a troubleshooting tool, although not so
much as a monitor. It will display all machines running on the network with
INITs that register your choosername or machine type on the network. Two such
INITs are "Responder" from Apple, and "RegisterName" from Farallon. What
Responder does for you is that it will also return driver and system
information when queried by Interpoll.

        Hope this helps.

Tom Holodnik
Carnegie-Mellon University