Hi Mark<br><br>I use cacti to monitor my network. <a href="http://www.cacti.net/index.php">http://www.cacti.net/index.php</a><br>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<br>
<br>I like <a href="http://www.backtrack-linux.org/">http://www.backtrack-linux.org/</a> for a USB OS <br>INL in Idaho Falls recommend the software<br><br>Cheers<br><br>Nigel<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/5/5 Mark Aitken <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nodegxt@yahoo.com.au">nodegxt@yahoo.com.au</a>></span><br>
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<div>I am looking for a suite of software, freeware, that willallow me to monitor a network grabhically.</div>
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<div>Particularily a ping history that is saved on the fly should something happen to the network/pc that is running the software.</div>
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<div>at the moment I am running "ping a.b.c.d -t >> file.txt" but it give me a timestamp of each</div>
<div>ping so as to see at what time the network is failing or is there is some frequency to its failure. </div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Thanks for your time.</div>
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<div>Regards</div>
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<div>Mark</div>
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