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Network Monitor: who’s watching World Cup online

To football fans, today is a big day! FIFA World Cup opens today, Friday, June 11, 2010. They will spend the nights with the TV and bears. But our network admins will be drove crazy too. Why? The World Cup brings us great joys as well as certain network problems. Some of the crazy fans will watch or replay the competitions online at work. In these days, you will find your network traffic grows dramatically. I don’t want to be mean with the big fans, but we still have to do our work to maintain the network goes smoothly. How can we figure who is watching World Cup online at workplace? With Capsa network analyzer at hand, that would be so easy for you to monitor network, and prevent the network problems that World Cup may bring to your LAN.

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Monitor broadcast storm with Colasoft Capsa

Causes of broadcast storm:

Incorrect network design and plan
Network equipment damage
HUB is easily lead to broadcast storm as broadcast equipment
NIC or switching equipment damage
Network loop
Incorrect router configuration
Virus

How to detect Broadcast Storm:
step1. Set up broadcast packets filter
Open Filter –> Add –> From Filter Table, check "Broadcast":

step2. Detect relevant parameters of the broadcast storm

1. Statistical parameters

broadcast [...]

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How to monitor the network conversation.

Why should we monitor the network conversation?
In a network group, especially for the company, enterprise, school, bank, NSA, etc, the confidential information is very very important, and may very dangerous if they are divulged.
And also, for a company/enterprise boss, he can get the information of what his staff are talking about via internet, no matter [...]

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