Because of the limitations of SPAN/monitor ports on switches, organizations have turned to using taps and packet monitoring switches. These solutions can be expensive which has lead companies to look ...

Every piece of information sent over your network travels within a packet. When you're having network problems, monitoring your packets helps you assess if you have a connection to other computers on ...

Enterprises are deploying more security, monitoring and acceleration tools on their networks today. More data at higher velocities is coming at these tools and in a variety forms, including voice, ...

Hands-on with the Pktmon network monitor Compared to a network monitor with a graphical user interface, the command-line interface of Pktmon takes a bit more time to get used to it. Before you can ...

High performance computing (HPC) requires an extremely high-powered network with ultra-low latency to move large files between HPC nodes quickly. IT and network operations (NetOps) teams in industries ...

Ever wonder exactly what is being sent across your network? No, I don’t mean Web sites, movies, yada, yada…I mean in the detailed sense–the packets that comprise the lowest level of network traffic ...

Distributed denial-of-service attacks have steadily increased over the last 18 months, despite being overshadowed by malware attacks and ransomware. Kaspersky Labs estimated 24% more DDoS attacks in ...

As we live in the era of Information technology, network administration plays a crucial part in IT decisions for any scale of business. In this busy sector of network administration, Internet traffic ...

In a previous article, I wrote about/confessed what a mess my home/home lab networking was and discussed various tools I used to discover what devices were connected to my home network and where they ...

Packet flows can help you monitor your network, trace a hacker's footsteps and see how your VPN is used Packet flows are quickly becoming one of the most powerful tools to understand network dynamics ...