On 3/24/06, Lance Grover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/24/06, Dave Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This email is coming to you over 430 feet of cat5e cable, which is good > > news, because it means that my "long-haul" ethernet link is working, at > > least it appears to be. Does anyone know of any good software to test > > and diagnose an ethernet network so I can be confident that I'm not > > getting any dropped packets? > > > If you want to get to the deep physical stuff I don't know what will work, I > use special devices like Fluke, but if you just want to see if packets are > getting dropped then try out mtr, I used it to diagnose my Comcast issues. > Basically it gives you statistics in a trace route fashion in real time with > percentages etc.
Recent Intel NICs (and some others) can do a lot of the physical diagnosis stuff (including TDR, IIRC) that Flukes do, but you'll probably have to boot Windows and download the software from Intel. - Andrew /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
