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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce
Subject: Forwarded commercial announcement - LanStat for FreeBSD
Date: 23 May 1996 07:02:34 -0500
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COMMERCIAL PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENT
NetRepair LanStat Ethernet Statistical Lan Analyser
As a result of the massive expansion of local and wide area networks, the need
for network managers to gather statistical information is becoming extremely
vital for capacity planning, network security, fault finding, application
performance analysis, traffic logging, client usage billing and network
auditing.
Presently, the tools available to collect and analyse statistical information
are very expensive, are extremely complicated to use, are not very practical,
are usually designed with bulky graphical interfaces and are implemented on a
sub-standard operating system. Currently the majority of network managers do
not have and would not benefit from these tools (which include most lan
analysers and network management systems).
NetRepair LanStat was designed to overcome the shortcomings of other existing
commercial products. This analyser has a fresh approach to gathering
statistical information. It is implemented on a Unix style operating system
which provides high performance, reliability and flexibility. LanStat provides
functions to enable network managers to gather all of the statistical
information frequently required to easily manage their networks.
Features:
- Simple to use interactive user interface
- Extremely portable (ie. runs from floppy disk)
- Capture lan traffic at high packet rates
- Lan utilisation statistics
- Packet size distribution of all captured traffic
- Total packets/bytes, packets/bytes per second for all traffic
- Ethernet and IP protocol counts
- Manufacturer card counts
- Node and conversation list generator for Ethernet, IP and Novell
- Top talkers and conversations for Ethernet, IP and Novell (sorted by total
bytes, total packets, packets/sec or bytes/sec)
- Duplicate IP address checker
- Warning messages about bad devices
- Disk logging of all statistics in time stamped flat ascii files
- Remote access via TCP/IP (ie. telnet)
- Operate completely from a bootable FreeBSD floppy or a fully installed
FreeBSD system
- Monitor multiple ethernet segments simultaneously from the same PC
- Operate on most 486/Pentium PC hardware
- Terminal-type independent
- Operate interactively or as a background process
Uses:
- Security
- Application performance analysis
- Fault finding
- Traffic logging and billing
- Network auditing
This is a demonstation version of NetRepair Lanstat ethernet statistical
lan analyser. Included in the tar file are the following files:
readme.FIRST This file readme file
readme.txt Text version of the manual
readme.ps Postscript version of the manual
floppy.dd Image of the boot floppy
lanstat Statically linked binary executable compiled on
FreeBSD 2.1.0-STABLE
To create the boot floppy, write the boot floppy image onto a 3.5" 1.44M
floppy disk using either the Unix 'dd' command or the DOS utility rawrite.exe.
eg. On a typical Unix system, use the following command:
dd bs=18 if=floppy.dd of=/dev/fd0
or
dd bs=18 if=floppy.dd of=/dev/floppy
FTP SITE: ftp.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/lanstat.tar
SIZE: 2140160 bytes
NOTE:
For the impatient who don't want to read the documentation first, please
read section 17 of the readme files as it explains how to use LanStat on
a fully installed FreeBSD system. There are a few changes to be made to the
kernel before lanstat can be used.
LanStat will be available in Australia and the UK by June 1996. For more
information:
Paul koch
Email: koch@thehub.com.au
NetRepair Technical Services Pty Ltd
PO Box 12717
Elizabeth Street
Brisbane, 4002
Queensland, Australia
Phone: +61 18 746017 (Mobile)
+61 7 3801 2083 (After Hours)