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In case you haven’t seen it yet, the SolarWinds Engineer’s Toolset version 10.1 is now available and includes some pretty cool new stuff. One of the coolest pieces of technology that 10.1 added is the new and improved traffic generator, WAN Killer. I recently had a chance to chat with the Toolset engineering team about…
We are pleased to announce that NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) version 4.0 is now available. Using the flow technology that is built into most routers you can see who, what, and how your network traffic and bandwidth is being used. The notable benefits of version 4.0 include: * Larger networks will benefit from a dramatic…
I am wanting to try and figure out a way to see what portion of our internet bandwidth consumption is Office 365. It uses common ports like 80 and 443, so I am having trouble distinguishing it from other web traffic. I would love to hear any suggestions for ways to identify and report on this traffic. Ultimately, I want to…
IP based networks are more complex today than ever before. Not only are they now supporting voice, video, and data, but complications like dwindling IPv4 resources, sprinkles of IPv6, and constant changes in topology can make them seem almost unmanageable. Tactical networks have all of these complexities with the added…
Today several folks here at the SolarWinds offices in Austin TX suggested that I write a blog post on the Conficker virus. This morning that seemed like a pretty good idea, but as the day went on and I started reading all of the great blog posts and articles (check out the ones by Network World and ZDNet) out there that…
One of the most difficult aspects of analyzing network traffic is that so much of today's network traffic is web traffic riding on either port 80 (HTTP) or port 443 (HTTPS). When you analyze network traffic using a technology like NetFlow, sFlow, JFlow, or IPFix, the protocol tells you (among other things) the source and…
Over the last few days I've been writing and talking a lot about NetFlow. This is a smokin' hot topic for network engineers nowadays and so we've created some new videos and webcasts to help explain the technology and how you can leverage it. One of the subjects that kept coming up is how to get NetFlow data from your…
Hello Forum, When viewing traffic charts for a specific interface, my quick views show the Top 5 of X but not the remaining traffic which is also important to me. Can someone please guide me on how I can get this 'remaining traffic'? Thanks. EWalls [Orion Platform 2014.1.0, SAM 6.1.0, NPM 10.7, NTA 3.11.0, IVIM 1.9.0]
We have a case where we are experiencing asymmetric routing over some of our routers, there is some receive traffic coming down our DSL back up lines. We have a very large estate and I need to weed out the routers where there is an unusually high level of traffic on their back up link, obviously I don't want to have to…
In my post about Top conversations and how they are calculated () we can see a lot of Microsoft DS (445) port traffic as the source port. My question is, what do you all use as tools to determine what applications on the source server is causing this traffic. My thought is to use a packet sniffer like Etherreal running on…
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