Spiro,
Yes that is exactly what Wireshark is good for, and for a
beginner that is an excellent place to start. You will want to capture off of a
mirrored/span port to begin with if possible. Running a live capture on the server
could use up more resources, and potentially give you a false reading. If you
have to capture on the server, you will need to run a simultaneous capture on an
affected client as well.
Take a capture and pay attention to the timing between request
and response from the server.
Ryan Zuidema
From:
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[mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cyril Spiro
Sent: 2008-11-06 07:04
To: wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Wireshark-users] Intermittent Performance Problems on Intranet
Hi, I'm a newbie to Wireshark :)
Our users on our Intranet are stating that their Web
Application can get slow at times. If we run Wireshark on the Web server
can we use it to determine if the packets are being slowed down once they have
gotten in the Web server (ie, slow database calls, etc.) versus outside of the
Web server on the network?
Thanks,
spiroc