Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!ucbvax!agate!saturn!ucscc.ucsc.edu!ucschu!humtech From: humtech@ucschu.UCSC.EDU (Mark Frost) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: AppleTalk analyzer... Message-ID: <4912@saturn.ucsc.edu> Date: 22 Sep 88 16:41:14 GMT Sender: usenet@saturn.ucsc.edu Reply-To: humtech@ucschu.ucsc.edu (Mark Frost) Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; Humanities Division Lines: 29 Is there some sort of analyzer for AppleTalk? We have TrafficWatch, but that only displays graphical info and not the same level of diagnostics as an EtherNet Analyzer. Our problem is that our AppleTalk/PhoneNet network is getting slow and sometimes some nodes (macs) will completely freeze. This is not because we have very many users or that they are generating unusually high levels of traffic (at least not that we have seen). Often we can see this sluggishness using CAP's AUFS file server system. Today, we were copying a file using the file server and the mac we were using, just hung up completely (showing the wristwatch, and the little arrows in the upper left hand corner of the screen). Our AppleTalk/LocalTalk (whatever they're calling it nowadays) is connected to our Ethernet via a Fastpath which goes to our UNIX machine. We would like to diagnose this weird problem before we expand the network further. We have also had problem with both MacIP and NCSA Telnet just freezing up (and subsequently closing their connections). I've heard of InterPoll. Does it do more than TrafficWatch? Is it a commercial product and not Shareware/Freeware? Your help is GREATLY appreciated, Mark Frost Office of the the Computing Coordinator Humanities Division University of California at Santa Cruz Internet: humtech@ucschu.UCSC.EDU Bitnet: humtech@ucschu.bitnet