Rod Trent at myITforum.com : Networking

Microsoft Network Monitor 3.4 released

rodtrent — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:30:54 GMT

Network Monitor 3.4 is a protocol analyzer. It allows you to capture network traffic, view and analyze it. Version 3.4 is an update and replaces Network Monitor 3.4. Network Monitor 3.x is a complete overhaul of the previous Network Monitor 2.x version.

Download details: Microsoft Network Monitor 3.4

Wireshark - network protocol analyzer

rodtrent — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:05:53 GMT

Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions.

Features

Wireshark has a rich feature set which includes the following:

Deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, with more being added all the time

Live capture and offline analysis

Standard three-pane packet browser

Multi-platform: Runs on Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and many others

Captured network data can be browsed via a GUI, or via the TTY-mode TShark utility

The most powerful display filters in the industry

Rich VoIP analysis

Read/write many different capture file formats: tcpdump (libpcap), Pcap NG, Catapult DCT2000, Cisco Secure IDS iplog, Microsoft Network Monitor, Network General Sniffer® (compressed and uncompressed), Sniffer® Pro, and NetXray®, Network Instruments Observer, NetScreen snoop, Novell LANalyzer, RADCOM WAN/LAN Analyzer, Shomiti/Finisar Surveyor, Tektronix K12xx, Visual Networks Visual UpTime, WildPackets EtherPeek/TokenPeek/AiroPeek, and many others

Capture files compressed with gzip can be decompressed on the fly

Live data can be read from Ethernet, IEEE 802.11, PPP/HDLC, ATM, Bluetooth, USB, Token Ring, Frame Relay, FDDI, and others (depending on your platfrom)

Decryption support for many protocols, including IPsec, ISAKMP, Kerberos, SNMPv3, SSL/TLS, WEP, and WPA/WPA2

Coloring rules can be applied to the packet list for quick, intuitive analysis

Output can be exported to XML, PostScript®, CSV, or plain text

Wireshark: About

Free eBook: TCP/IP Fundamentals for Microsoft Windows

rodtrent — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:01:27 GMT

This online book is a structured, introductory approach to the basic concepts and principles of the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) protocol suite, how the most important protocols function, and their basic configuration in the Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 families of operating systems. This book is primarily a discussion of concepts and principles to lay a conceptual foundation for the TCP/IP protocol suite and provides an integrated discussion of both Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) and Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c76296fd-61c9-4079-a0bb-582bca4a846f&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Network Monitor 3.2

rodtrent — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:16:27 GMT

Network Monitor 3.2 is a protocol analyzer. It allows you to capture network traffic, view and analyze it. Version 3.2 is an update and replaces Network Monitor 3.1. Network Monitor 3.x is a complete overhaul of the previous Network Monitor 2.x version.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f4db40af-1e08-4a21-a26b-ec2f4dc4190d&displaylang=en&tm

Be notified when RIM’s network is down or out

rodtrent — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:53:32 GMT

Bb-Outage mailing list: http://www.dataoutages.com/mailman/listinfo/bb-outage

Email address to use: Bb-Outage@dataoutages.com

Web site: http://www.dataoutages.com

RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Bb-outage

Microsoft warns of public exploit code for DNS Spoofing

rodtrent — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:26:35 GMT

http://www.myitforum.com/absolutenm/templates/IndustryNews.aspx?articleid=5368&zoneid=71

Solarwinds free network monitoring tools

rodtrent — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:20:54 GMT

You have to fill out some personal information to get to the download page for each tool, but here’s some tools you may find useful.

SolarWinds Free TFTP Server - upload and download executable images and configurations to network devices - our most popular free network monitoring tool!
NEW! SolarWinds Free Exchange Monitor - our newest free tool delivers a clever desktop dashboard that continuously monitors Exchange to deliver real-time insight into services, mail queue sizes, and host server health.
SolarWinds Free NetFlow Configurator - configure NetFlow v5 via SNMP on supported Cisco® devices - a perfect complement to Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer and the NetFlow Real-time Tool in Engineer's Toolset
SolarWinds Free Advanced Subnet Calculator - compute addresses for IP subnets - another perennial favorite in our suite of free network monitoring tools!
SolarWinds Free Wake-On-LAN - remotely power up network PCs

Is your ISP’s DNS vulnerable?

rodtrent — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:37:28 GMT

Mine is, apparently…

Your name server, at 65.24.7.3, appears vulnerable to DNS Cache Poisoning.

All requests came from the following source port: 38465
Do not be concerned at this time. IT administrators have only recently been apprised of this issue, and should have some time to safely evaluate and deploy a fix.

Requests seen for f7c47605c597.toorrr.com:
65.24.7.3:38465 TXID=12160
65.24.7.3:38465 TXID=20751
65.24.7.3:38465 TXID=65134
65.24.7.3:38465 TXID=32991
65.24.7.3:38465 TXID=51073

Jump out here to test yours. Use the DNS Checker on the right-hand side of the blog.

Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides released

rodtrent — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:04:19 GMT

The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture. The guides in this series help clarify and streamline design processes for Microsoft infrastructure technologies, with each guide addressing a unique infrastructure technology or scenario.

Here’s the new one’s available:

New! System Center Operations Manager 2007

New! System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008

New! Internet Information Services 7.0

New! Selecting the Right NAP Architecture

Here’s the one’s already available:

Infrastructure Planning and Design Series Introduction

Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization

Selecting the Right Virtualization Technology

Windows Deployment Services

Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Services

Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services

Windows Server Virtualization (for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1)

Here’s the URL to find all of them:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AD3921FB-8224-4681-9064-075FDF042B0C&displaylang=en

Using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to Extend Network Health

rodtrent — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:54:54 GMT

Richard Dixon and Michael Kelley have put together a comprehensive technical case study and webcast on using ConfigMgr 2007 to extend network health.

Read about it…

http://sccmnap.com/blogs/rgotnap/archive/2008/06/16/using-system-center-configuration-manager-2007-to-extend-network-health.aspx

Network Monitor 3.2 Beta has released!!!

rodtrent — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:18:21 GMT

http://blogs.technet.com/netmon/archive/2008/06/12/network-monitor-3-2-beta-has-released.aspx

mRemote

rodtrent — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:27:41 GMT

mRemote allows you to manage all your remote connections in a single place. It currently supports the RDP, VNC, SSH, Telnet, RAW, Rlogin, ICA and HTTP/S protocols.

Looks pretty neat...

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mremote/

Wireshark

rodtrent — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:55:04 GMT

Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions.

http://www.wireshark.org

Microsoft Network Monitor 3.1 OneClick

rodtrent — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:28:47 GMT

OneClick Capture Tool
Simple tool to quickly get a network trace

Download…

Public Release of Microsoft Network Monitor 3.1

rodtrent — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:05:49 GMT

Network Monitor 3.1 is a protocol analyzer. It allows you to capture network traffic, view and analyze it. Version 3.1 is an update and replaces Network Monitor 3.0. Network Monitor 3.x is a complete overhaul of the previous Network Monitor 2.x version.