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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Networking monitoring has become a key topic in nearly every industry as so much is now driven by the network that business tends to cease in functioning if something with the network goes wrong. As a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most packet protocols permit virtually any packet to encapsulate another. So, it's difficult for any network administrator to know just what is passing through the network. The solution to this ...

As cybersecurity threats become more sophisticated, organizations need a way to quickly detect and stop an attack or track and analyze its after-effects for clues. One important tool available to ...

In recent years, ISPs have taken an increased interest in faking packets, and for some mysterious reason, they don't always like to make this fact perfectly clear to customers. Hoping to bring power ...