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Efficient use of workstations for passive monitoring of local area networks

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SIGCOMM '90: Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Communications architectures & protocols

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https://doi.org/10.1145/99508.99562

Published: 01 August 1990 Publication History

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Effective management of a local area network (LAN) requires not only a protocol to manage the active entities, but also a means to monitor the LAN channel. This is especially true in shared-channel LANs, such as Ethernet, where the behavior of the LAN as a whole may be impractical to deduce from the states of the individual hosts. Passive monitoring can be done using either a dedicated system or a general-purpose system. Dedicated monitors have been favored for several reasons, but recent workstations, when carefully programmed, are sufficiently powerful to serve this function. Using a workstation offers high-performance graphics and a more flexible environment for collecting and presenting LAN behavior.

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1. Hardware
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    1. Displays and imagers
    2. Printers
2. Networks
  1. Network properties
    1. Network range
      1. Local area networks
      2. Wide area networks
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