From: John Beckett 

Richard B.  wrote in message
news::
> What do you guys like and why?   I'm looking for something that can
> produce easily understood results...I'm looking at LanHound right now
> and I think GFI has a good one too.

Like Geo I use the SMS version of Network Monitor. However, recently I've
started playing with the free Ethereal. It's really impressive.

There are some ugly features of Ethereal where NetMon is much better:
- Can't capture a PPP connection - only physical Ethernet I think.
- Screen updating is slower (I sometimes use Terminal Services over a
dial-up connection and run NetMon remotely).

But Ethereal is pretty straight forward and free, and has some features
that NetMon does not.

Go to:
http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/win32/

Scroll to bottom. Download two files: WinPcap_3_0.exe
ethereal-setup-0.10.5a.exe

If you want to capture and display data, install both (in any order).

If you only want to display data captured elsewhere, install Ethereal only.

John

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