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Distinct Network Monitor
Packet Analyzer for IP
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IP Packet Sniffing - made
easy
Distinct Network
Monitor is a packet capture and network protocol analyzer software
that translates complex protocol negotiation into natural language,
pinpointing where errors occurred. Not only is easier to use than
any other competing products, but it also translates the packet
negotiation into natural language, something no other network
protocol analyzer does.
Network Monitor was developed
for network professionals who need to quickly detect network errors
rather than wading through pages of incomprehensible network
traffic.
Network Statistics – simple to
understand
The Distinct Network Monitor Statistics gathering
and analysis module allows you to get a very good picture of the
activity that is going on for any given network segment monitored.
While the Statistics module is fully integrated in the Distinct
Network Monitor, the product provides the ability to run this module
only, allowing it to run for several hours or days gathering the
needed statistics. Following is a brief description of the features
provided by the Network Statistics module:
- Graphical and chart
displays of all statistics
gathered.
- Top Ten Talkers quickly gives
you an idea of which systems are chewing up most bandwidth on the
network segment being monitored.
- IP traffic drill down by
protocol, down to each set of talking pairs. This shows all the
systems that any single system is talking to and what protocol is
being used.
- Statistics by application
protocol showing all the talking pairs of systems for
each protocol in use.
- Network protocols drill down to
see which MAC addresses are most active.
- Traffic divided by MAC address,
this shows the complete activity for each active MAC address
including non IP protocols.
- Network Segment Bandwidth
Monitor that shows you the bandwidth usage as seen by
your NIC.
- Adapter Statistics. This reports
all the data that is gathered by the NIC driver including
collisions, alignment errors, overruns and underruns.
- Summary details include number
of passthrough packets received from the monitoring system.
- Can gather statistics on all
traffic in/out of the network if installed on the same
hub as the router.
- Make use of Filters to search for
specific problems. For example filters can be written to
capture all broadcast packets going out on the segment. The
statistics IP module will quickly identify the origin of the
majority of the broadcast packets.
- Find out who owns an intruding IP
address. The statistics module includes the ability to
query the public WhoIs databases for any IP address at the right
click of the mouse.
- Excellent Reporting Create HTML
reports to easily go through and analyze the statistics gathered.
If you like what you see, download Network
Monitor now and try it out on your network.
Network Traffic analysis – easy to read
The
Distinct Network Monitoring packet sniffing and decode capabilities
are very far reaching. The product offers a high degree of
flexibility and provides you with the ability to selectively narrow
down problem areas. In summary Distinct Network Monitor:
- Captures network traffic and interprets
the network packet trace in plain English. For example
whereas, a leading high-end network analyzer
parsed a Telnet packet as follows:
0000:
ff fd 18 ff fd lf ff fd 23 ff fd 27 ff fd 24 |
Distinct Network Monitor parsed the
same packet negotiation by indicating exactly the
Telnet options being negotiated:
TELNET Do Terminal Type
Do Window Size Do X Display Location Do New Environment Option Do
Environment Option
and gave a detailed description of each
option request.
- Gives an intelligent interpretation of
what actually happened on the network. By maintaining the
history of each connection, Network Monitor is able to give
meaning to each packet in a trace. This makes it much easier to
actually detect errors and to understand the cause of a problem.
- Allows the display of a single
TCP stream. It is sometimes hard to focus on a single
connection especially on a busy network. To simplify your task you
can just click on any packet in a single TCP connection and select
to view only packets that belong to that connection.
- Color codes packets of the same
connection. Color coding is used to quickly move through
packets that belong to a single connection.
- Allows you to customize which IP header
fields you wish to display in the packet trace summary
window. Since the physical size of your computer screen
has its limitations, Distinct Network Monitor allows you to
display the IP headers that are most important to your specific
needs. Just right click your mouse to choose the headers you want
to see.
- Moves from one protocol error to the next
protocol error fast. Menu item allows you to quickly scan
through all the errors that are in any given trace without having
to look through the whole file.
- Modify and resend any packet in a trace
file. Distinct Network Monitor allows you to modify and
resend on the network any packet that is in a give trace file.
This feature is very useful for software developers working with
proprietary protocols or developing applications that rely on
specific protocols.
- Imports packet trace
files taken with other networks
analyzers and views them in Distinct’s plain English format.
- Exports packet trace to csv or text
format. This allows you to make use of the data gathered
right in your application. Packet header information may be exported in a comma separated format (CSV) for use with Excel or
imported into a database. Complete packet information which
includes protocol details may be exported to a text file (TXT).
- Works over serial line. Network
Monitor works over a PPP connection. Use it to find out who is
intruding on your PPP connection.
- Has advanced filtering
capabilities. It allows you to filter at any level. You
may filter the capture
itself to avoid the collection of unnecessary packets and reduce
the size of your capture. You may also filter a captured file and
save the packets filtered to a new, smaller, more manageable file
- Has a REMOTE IP SNIFFING capability
through its Agents: Distinct Network Monitor comes with
one Remote Agent (also
known as a network probe) and additional Agents may be purchased
to allow the remote monitoring of systems when needed.
- Has Search capabilities. Network
Monitor searches for any string within a captured network trace.
- Saves the network packet trace in
MergeDPM supported
format.
- Supports a wide range of protocols that
is constantly expanding. Network Monitor includes parsers
for the most important protocols of the Internet including IP,
TCP, UDP, HTTP, SMTP, FTP, POP3, IMAP, LDAP, VoIP, H323, SIP and
many others. If you are interested in seeing a protocol parsed
that is not in our current list, just send us a request. We will
see what we can do to add this.
- Includes several utilities such
as Ping, Traceroute, WhoIs, Local scan for port status an TCP Port
Scan.
Technical
support.
We stay behind our product 100%.
You will find the most comprehensive technical support center in the
net tools business, featuring a comprehensive knowledge base
and an email-based Support Center.
Requirements: Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, XP
Download: Network
Monitor trial.
This trial is limited to 25 packets and will time out 10 days after installation.
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