Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!oliveb!sun!rose!nowicki From: nowicki%rose@Sun.COM (Bill Nowicki) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: Ethernet Test Equipment Message-ID: <10756@sun.uucp> Date: Mon, 22-Dec-86 17:51:27 EST Article-I.D.: sun.10756 Posted: Mon Dec 22 17:51:27 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 23-Dec-86 00:34:18 EST References: <747@uwmacc.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.uucp Lines: 14 Summary: Sun Workstation In article <747@uwmacc.UUCP>, dorl@uwmacc.UUCP (Michael Dorl) writes: I'd like to know what kind of test equipment you have and if it actually helped you solve any problems. It really depends on what level you want to test. For a physical test, a Time-Domain-Reflectometer is a good machine. For the higher levels, we have some tools called "traffic" and "etherfind" that can be run on Sun workstations (included in release 3.0 and beyond). The traffic program gives a real-time bar-graph of various usage statistics, and the etherfind program is used to get packet traces for debugging high-level protocols. -- Bill Nowicki Sun Microsystems