Add to the list tcpdump (CLI) and X-windows based ethereal.
As far as advice on what to look for, I can't give you much but you may want
to ask this on a more network oriented newsgroup (see deja.com for a list)
or mailing list. I would recommend two things though - try to track down
why NIS and NFS died through the log files on both boxes; and if you think
traffic is the issue see if your hubs and routers can provide you with
traffic statistics to back this - all routers and most hubs (if they are
smart) provide network statistics.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Praedor Tempus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Proving networking issues...
> One easy to understand, graphical sniffer/traffic analyzer is etherape.
It
> will produce a display of all the active addresses (IP or MAC) in a given
> network domain and show traffic patterns by type (TCP/IP, UDP, etc) by
color
> code and amount of traffic by line thickness. It is gtk+ based and is
> simple. For simply checking out traffic load, this would do it quite
well.
>
> dsniff and snort are raw packet sniffers (of the two I like snort,
> personally).
>
> On Tuesday 06 February 2001 10:23, Wayne Stout you wrote:
> > I've been looking around for decent network sniffers, but am at a loss
> > for what I'm looking for or at. Is there a good How-to or article I can
> > read to help me figure out if indeed I have managed to horribly
> > misconfigure the server?
> >
> > Wayne
