Because of the limitations of SPAN/monitor ports on switches, organizations have turned to using taps and packet monitoring switches. These solutions can be expensive which has lead companies to look ...

I have often wondered why manufacturers of Ethernet switches severely restrict the number of SPAN/port-monitoring sessions they allow to be configured. I can only assume that they are limited because ...

With the Windows 10 October 2018 update release, Microsoft had quietly added a built-in command-line network packet sniffer called Pktmon to Windows 10. Since then, Microsoft has added a few more ...

A packet monitor, or network sniffer, is a program that lets you monitor the network traffic flowing over a computer's network devices down to the individual packet level. When Pktmon was first ...

LiveAction today said that it will acquire software provider Savvius, which provides packet-capture and analytics appliances and forensic software for network monitoring. Terms of the deal were not ...

Barefoot Networks today announced Barefoot Deep Insight. The company says it’s a network monitoring system that gives visibility into every packet in a network. Deep Insight leverages Barefoot’s ...

Anyone know of a packet sniffer or network monitor that can tell the difference between HTTP traffic and P2P traffic? Since all the new P2P programs fall down to port 80 when you block their normal ...

Flowmon Networks, a vendor of advancednetwork monitoring and security solutions, today revealed a global, "It's Flow time" initiative. The aim is to help enterprises to easily switch from legacy ...

Real time performance management, a must-have technology for converged networks, is only now finding its way into enterprise-level companies, but it is already becoming well-established in the SMB ...