I wonder if anybody knows a (public domain) s/w for Alpha (first choice) or
Sun Solaris (second choice) which is able to monitor a LAN in case of high
load, and tell which machine is generating which percentage of packets.
Yesterday late afternoon I noticed a remarkable slow down on our LAN (I was
working across an Alpha and an NT machine thru Citrix and SAMBA), the only
thing I was able to do was to look at the front panel of our hubs and see that
the network load was "above 30%".
I suspect a user which left a tar backup on DAT running in background (either
rsh or NFS access), but I could not go and look on some 30-40 machines
(moreover, there are other institutes on other floors in the same building
sharing somehow the LAN).
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Lucio Chiappetti - IFCTR/CNR - via Bassini 15 - I-20133 Milano (Italy)
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Received on Tue Nov 09 1999 - 08:14:32 NZDT