How to Troubleshoot your Network
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How often have you had trouble with your home network, and tried various different programs to attempt to figure out the problem? Wouldn’t it be easier to have one tool that can do pretty much everything you need to keep your network running properly? During a GoToMeeting recently, Uncle John showed us what he keeps in his tool belt when he needs to diagnose any network problems he may come across.
Axence NetTools is network monitoring with alerting, real-time & historical charts of response time & packet lost. E-mail and sound notifications available when a host is down. In their own words:
WinTools lists exhaustive system information from Windows computers: running processes & services, registry, event log, disk, memory & CPU information. Port scanner checks for all open ports and running services. It can discover some Trojans/spyware. Network scanner discovers all nodes, their IP/MAC and services running on them. NetStat displays your computer’s inbound and outbound connections, lists all open TCP/UDP ports, with the remote IP address & the process using the connection. TCP/IP Workshop establishes low-level TCP/UDP connections to troubleshoot and test network services. It can send raw data to any remote port. Other tools: ping, fast trace route, lookup, bandwidth test tool, SNMP browser. Version 3.1 adds automating most frequent functions.
NetStat Displays all the inbound and outbound connections to your computer and lists all open ports. Additionally, NetStat maps open ports and established connections to the owning application.
Service and Port Scanner Allows you to check for all open ports and running services. It not only checks if the port is open, but also sends a request and checks whether a reply meets specific criteria. It can also discover some Trojans and spyware.
Those are only two of the many different features of this program. Once the 30-day free trial expires, most of the features still work. The few that are “locked out” are good… but not the only ones that can help you. The ones that are part of the free application are definitely worth having in your tool box.
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ursad
October 28th, 2007
at 3:13pm
Vary nice tool, but it looks like one of tho’s programs you download and never use after about a week or two if you get me? But non the less still vary nice!
FoamyShowme
October 28th, 2007
at 9:01pm
I win!!! Thanks for the help second comment :)
ursad
October 28th, 2007
at 10:13pm
Vary nice tool, but it looks like one of tho’s programs you download and never use after about a week or two if you get me? But non the less still vary nice!
Kha Ara
October 28th, 2007
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UncleJohn97420
October 29th, 2007
at 9:17am
I use it very often, I also use it for trouble shooting client’s networks. One reason I got it, needed a free program that I could freely use on more then one computer.
It beats going into cmd to check all this stuff out.
ursad
October 29th, 2007
at 9:50am
Thanks for your reply :) i have had a little go with it myself vary nice program, even better than some of the one’s you have to pay for. I did find one a month ago wich was vary much alike, mite be still on my notebook, if i find the name i will post back.
UncleJohn97420
October 29th, 2007
at 4:17pm
I use it very often, I also use it for trouble shooting client’s networks. One reason I got it, needed a free program that I could freely use on more then one computer.
It beats going into cmd to check all this stuff out.
ursad
October 29th, 2007
at 4:50pm
Thanks for your reply :) i have had a little go with it myself vary nice program, even better than some of the one’s you have to pay for. I did find one a month ago wich was vary much alike, mite be still on my notebook, if i find the name i will post back.
inzkulozik
October 29th, 2007
at 7:04pm
Nice, thx
Adrian Hensler
October 29th, 2007
at 6:20pm
I just the other day used wireshark ( http://www.wireshark.org ) to troubleshoot a difficult networking problem. What was happening is that some packets were not being transmitted. As my home LAN is quite small and fairly low traffic; this seemed odd. After firing up wireshark on two workstations; I could see that there werepackets being dropped because of CRC errors. After some fiddling; I found that if I turned off the power saving on that device (I had not turned it on ever to the best of my knowledge) the problem went away.
inzkulozik
October 30th, 2007
at 2:04am
Nice, thx
jorgenlysdal
November 2nd, 2007
at 9:07pm
What´s the programs name again?? Cant hear what he says!
jorgenlysdal
November 3rd, 2007
at 4:07am
What´s the programs name again?? Cant hear what he says!
leftystrat
November 6th, 2007
at 11:53am
If you have more than a few computers, RUN out and dl a copy of The Dude (no, I’m not kidding) at http://www.mikrotik.com
It will discover the machines on the network, map them out, and monitor for any number of services. It can alert you in many different ways. This program far exceeds commercial software I’ve tried and has been in use on my LAN/WAN for a few years. It will impress the hell out of people if you put it on a large monitor where everyone can see it.
If this is too much for your application, there are a ton of free pingers and graphical pingers available. Some are built in to linux, most are available for Windows.
VNC/RDP client. Logmeinrescue.com
ssh scp putty
trpted
November 7th, 2007
at 10:00am
Axence NetTools.
ccarr7416
May 15th, 2008
at 2:05pm
GREAT info, thanks!
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