[GRLUG] Slightly OT, .. Troubleshooting a network?

[Don wood]

  On 9/20/2010 11:13 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 23:58 -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote:
>> Have a problem with a small network (six machines, one server&  router) -
>> some of the Windoze machines are taking *minutes* tologin on the server,
>> and I suspect that some of the network gear/cabling may be having
>> problems.
>> Other than pawing through packet dumps or ramdonly running cables to
>> byass what's in the walls (already swapped the switch), is there any way
>> to collect 'statistics'? Collisions? Packet re-sends? Conversation
>> failures?
> If you are using a managed switch it knows all [or most] these things.
> Otherwise, no.
>
>
Actually if it's a managed switch you could mirror all port traffic to 
one port and analyze it with wireshark.

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