Tag: Bandwidth
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Performance Diagnostics Part 3 — Latency beyond Ping
Network teams often use ICMP as a mechanism to determine the latency (propagation delay etc) and reachability between two endpoints using the trusty Ping utility. Ping appeared in late 1983 created Mike Muuss while working US Ballistics Research Laboratory. Additionally, what was interesting about 1983 is that it was the year the that the US military converged on…
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Top 5 Wireshark Tips for Network Analysis
I’ve been using Wireshark since it was named Ethereal back in the very early 2000s, and I still use it daily for research. Wireshark recently turned 25 with creator Gerald Combs announcing it on the Wireshark blog and celebrating it at Sharkfest ‘23 Asia and US. To celebrate I’m going to offer my top 5 Wireshark tips for 2023! Tip 1 — Use Profiles…
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Who’s Using My Bandwidth?
One of the questions I hate is “who’s using my bandwidth?!?” and not at all because I was the child consuming and all of the available dial-up (28.8Kbps) bandwidth downloading the latest FreeBSD or Linux distribution image. In fact this was the age of magazines with CDs that contained Mandrake, RedHat, or if I was…