[cvsnt] Tool for analyzing network traffic anywhere?

[David Somers]

On Friday 30 June 2006 16:36, Bo Berglund wrote:
> It is from time to time claimed that CVSNT is slow on network
> connections and it has been very hard to figure out why. I have on
> occation also seen strange delays that could be blaimed on networking.
> For this it would be good to have a tool that is able to analyze the
> TCP/IP traffic through a particular network connection by application,
> TCP/IP port, destination address and amount of data sent/received per
> time increment. Maybe even graping the usage.
> Then one could see if some extraneous function is blocking the
> network.
>
> So I am looking for a tool like this (and I am not after packet
> sniffing ones like Ethereal or similar). Can anyone say if there is
> such a Windows tool available? Open source preferred, next shareware.

I'd say use Ethereal/tcpdump... if you want to see what's happening down the 
wire... probably a bit overwhelming unless you really are into the low-level 
details of tcp, ip, et al.

Or: TracePlus/WinSock (commercial, from TracePlus/WinSock ($200)... 
time-limited demo available) ... which hooks into WinSock so you can see 
things from the winsock side of the connection (excuse the pun) - but this 
won't really show the real detail of exactly what's flying around in the 
network (for that see Ethereal).

-- 
David Somers
typographer/programmer/whatever