Simple tool to analyze, shape, and generate ethernet traffic.
Features include:
- Monitor traffic type distribution
- Throttle selected tcp connections
- Improve throughput with smarter drop policies (RED)
- Customize network for latency vs. throughput
- Raise alerts during suspicious port connections
- Visualize bandwidth usage
Who knows yet.
http://www.flukenetworks.com/enterprise-network/network-monitoring/Tap-Solutions
- Use the built in ethernet port for input and use an ETHERNET to USB adapter for the output
- Analytic parsing: In-depth packet analysis.
- Filter parsing: Parsing just enough to filter appropriate packets so as to avoid latency.
###Analytics: (From parsed ethernet frame)
- Source
- Determine traffic categories
- Bandwidth usage
- Latency
- Recognize High fragmentation
- Elastic vs inelastic traffic.
- Blocking certain sources.
- Throttling certain sources. (Actual TCP drop vs Report Dup ACK)
- Expediting certain sources. (Throttle other streams vs fake prefetch with pre-emptive ACKs)
- Alarms for suspicious behavior
- Notification settings
- Alarms for recurring network failures
- Simple piezo-speakers
- VGA controller
- Lists of traffic streams with basic stats
- Real-time feed of bandwidth usage
- Real-time feed of ping
- Keyboard for arrow keys and numpad.
- Selected a traffic stream from the display.
- Traffic rules that apply to all traffic.
- Buffering rules. (Reduce or extend buffer bloat)
- Smarter drop policies. (RED)