[dba-Tech] Monitoring net traffic to the internet

Yeah, I though so too.

If you have it running while a local Access program accesses a BE db on a
server, you can actually see the data in the data coming back (and going if
there is any).  

If you take it out of promiscuous mode, then it will only see the data
coming to and from your pc.

I got this one report down from 90MB and over 500,000 packets to about 4.5MB
and 1500 packets.

Bobby 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin at
Beach Access Software
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 10:25 PM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Monitoring net traffic to the internet

I got it.  I installed it.  It's really cool.  I have NO idea what I'm
looking at.  But it IS way cool.

Rocky
 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 1:14 PM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Monitoring net traffic to the internet

Try Wireshark.  It's a neat, free protocol analyzer.

http://www.wireshark.org/

I've used it at work to test the efficiency of access queries against a
database on the server.

Bobby

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of JWColby
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 3:55 PM
To: dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com; 'Access Developers discussion and
problem solving'; 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: [dba-Tech] Monitoring net traffic to the internet

Can anyone point me to software that allows monitoring traffic to the
internet and tracking it back to the workstation?
 
My client has a very limited bandwidth to the internet and it is being used
in an unexplained manner, i.e. the bandwidth is not available to me (for
example) if I do an upload or download to FTP, response time is slow for
remote desktop etc.  We have seen this occur when one of the technical types
is downloading large service packs etc which we have arranged to have done
"off hours", but there are still times when the internet bandwidth is
abnormally low.  Thus we want to discover if someone is playing FM radio,
watching a video etc. just so we can go rap on their door and ask them to
stop.
 
I haven't a clue how to discover what workstation is using bandwidth like
this.
 
John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com