Thursday, July 30, 2009

How to analyze the statistic of a specific IP in LAN with Colasoft Capsa?

Nowadays, computers is becoming the necessity in majority of companies all over the world. Network managers/adminstrators have to monitor their network, grasp the network status in time, and find a best solution once there's any abnormal condition occurs in the network. They have to make sure the whole network status is visible to them, even the traffic,conversation, packet in 1 specific IP address. Without a appropriate network management, a large amount of network risks will appear in your network.

Colasoft Capsa 6.9R2, which is windows7 supported, is such an ideal network monitor. This article is telling you how to analyze the statistics of a specific IP address once you have to analyze the stats by locating a IP address.

For example:
There are 200 hosts in LAN. You have detectde the network became very slow due to BT downloading by a specific IP address: 192.168.6.5. To check the stats, including protocols, conversations, packets, etc under this IP to prove it is the specific IP address, you need locate it. In Colasoft Capsa, there are 2 ways to implement it:

1. select the IP address under "IP Explorer" in the left Explorer window:
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2. add the IP address in Filter setting, steps as follows:
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Then we can check all the stats related to "192.168.6.5" only to further comfirm the problem. For more infomation of "How to Track BitTorrent User in Network with Colasoft Packet Sniffer", please go to http://blog.colasoft.com/how-to-track-bittorrent-user-in-network-with-colasoft-packet-sniffer/

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