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Anyone who know of a low prised utility that can tell me what people
plug to our network.

If you have testet it, please list some pro and con ??

Does it work over LAN segments?


Any surgestions?
Thanks for any reply.

/Jep

ethereal is a free sniffer. It's hard to setup filters but you get what you
pay for. www.ethereal.com

"Jep" <> wrote in message
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> Anyone who know of a low prised utility that can tell me what people
> plug to our network.
>
> If you have testet it, please list some pro and con ??
>
> Does it work over LAN segments?
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> Any surgestions?
> Thanks for any reply.
>
> /Jep
>

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Jep <> wrote:
:Anyone who know of a low prised utility that can tell me what people
lug to our network.

:If you have testet it, please list some pro and con ??

oes it work over LAN segments?

What kind of information were you hoping to get out of the utility?
MAC address? IP address? NETBIOS information? Running services
such as HTTP, SMTP, IMAP? Tracking of link utilization if it
turns out that the device acts like a router or switch? Do you
use VLANs on your networks?

If your switches are "managed" you can very likely get MAC address
information out of them... of whatever devices are active at
the time of the scan.

If you have a router, you -might- be able to match up MAC addresses
and IP addresses -- but if your only router is your WAN router
then the router is not going to be able to give you any information
about systems that never talk to the outside world.

There are some useful free tools around (especially if you do not
mind hacking some perl or C.) You can write your own if you
have the time and the skill; as usual, though, "The Devil is in
the details".

The professional software that I use for my monitoring is done
by Fluke. It isn't cheap, and it could stand some improvements
in how it handles VLSM and multiple subnets, but it would take
me a -lot- of effort to write an equivilent.
--
Live it up, rip it up, why so lazy?
Give it out, dish it out, let's go crazy, yeah!
-- Supertramp (The USENET Song)

Superscan is free, and works well.

http://www.foundstone.com/resources/...superscan4.zip


"Jep" <> wrote in message
news:...
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> Anyone who know of a low prised utility that can tell me what people
> plug to our network.
>
> If you have testet it, please list some pro and con ??
>
> Does it work over LAN segments?
>
>
> Any surgestions?
> Thanks for any reply.
>
> /Jep
>