[Scott Fringer <fringsm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, using the 6500's NAM you can capture data (it actually uses
Ethereal to capture the packets), and then pull it off the NAM and view
it/manipulate it within Ethereal (since the web-frontend to view captured
data on the NAM is pitifully slow and not very friendly).  That's what I
do here... I don't do anything with the RMON side of things for packet
analysis; simply use that for watching 'interesting' hosts/conversations.

Scott

Scott Fringer                              Shands Healthcare @ U.F.
Network Systems Analyst                        Gainesville, FL

On Tue, 6 Aug 2002 Alistair.McGlinchy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Nick,
>
> > Does anyone here use RMON to capture packets?  I'm using a
> > Cisco Layer-3 switch and it appears the only way I'm going to
> > be able to do packet capturing is with RMON, but I have no
> > idea how.  The old "port monitor" command was much easier,
> > but this switch doesnt do it.
>
> I use 3Com's LANSentry Capture utility to run RMON based captures (it's very
> old but does the trick). This is not very helpful for you as 3COM are out of
> the RMON game these days and have end-of-lifed there Transcend suite. (Boo
> hiss!)
>
> I presume you're using Cat 6500's? I understand that the latest Cisco's NAM
> cards provides a Web based front end to port spans and RMON captures. We
> have an older version of the NAM software and Cisco recommend Cisco Works to
> get captures from it. However Cisco Works is far less function at RMON
> capturing so I've stuck to LANSenrty.  (Off topic plug: could anyone who has
> a NAM and is sucessfully collecting RMON2 TopN application layour matrix
> information please email me off list).
>
> Im not sure if there are any open source or GNU RMON1 capture utilities for
> windows. There is Argus though; I'm stuck in Windows land so I haven't tried
> it.
> http://www.qosient.com/argus/faq.htm
>
> HTH
>
> Alistair
>
>
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