Every piece of information sent over your network travels within a packet. When you're having network problems, monitoring your packets helps you assess if you have a connection to other computers on ...

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 ...

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 ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – April 24, 2013 – VSS Monitoring, a leader in network packet brokers (NPBs), today announced that it is uniquely addressing critical networking issues enterprises and mobile ...

The phrase "sniff the network" may conjure Orwellian visions of a Big Brother network administrator reading people's private email messages. Before anyone uses Wireshark, an organization should ensure ...

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 ...

Ever wonder exactly what is being sent across your network? No, I don’t mean Web sites, movies, yada, yada…I mean in the detailed sense–the packets that comprise the lowest level of network traffic ...

High performance computing (HPC) requires an extremely high-powered network with ultra-low latency to move large files between HPC nodes quickly. IT and network operations (NetOps) teams in industries ...

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 ...