[MLB-WIRELESS] network monitoring software??

[Nigel Zeinert]

Hi Mark

I use cacti to monitor my network. http://www.cacti.net/index.php
It defaults to a ping every 5 minutes, but you can change this down to a
small interval. (beware! if the total time to pole you network is longer
than the interval time, things go bang! consider every host not replying. eg
ping fail with 2 shots will take 3 sec for each host so 100 host max) having
said that i have over a 1000 host on one box

I like http://www.backtrack-linux.org/ for a USB OS
INL in Idaho Falls recommend the software

Cheers

Nigel


2010/5/5 Mark Aitken <nodegxt at yahoo.com.au>

> Hello,
>
> I am looking for a suite of software, freeware, that willallow me to
> monitor a network grabhically.
>
> Particularily a ping history that is saved on the fly should something
> happen to the network/pc that is running the software.
>
> at the moment I am running "ping a.b.c.d -t >> file.txt" but it give me a
> timestamp of each
> ping so as to see at what time the network is failing or is there is some
> frequency to its failure.
>
> Also,  is there a USB OS that I could plug into tand boot from my laptop
> that would allow wireless capture of data to determine any issues happening
> on the wireless side of things.
>
> The laptops are company laptops and stuffing around installing dual boot
> partitions is not allowed. If I could boot into a linux OS from USB and
> utilise the wifi card within the laptop to capture packets etc it would be
> of extreme usefulness.  Maybe there is a winXP equivalent applicant that I
> can install? Wifi card works with Netstumbler fine, its just not a good tool
> for anything except signal/snr/etc.
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Regards
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
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