Tools for Network Diagnosis and Analysis

by Chin-Shiuh Shieh on

• NetInfo, from Tsarfin Computing, is a network toolkit supporting Local Info, Connections, Ping, Trace, Lookup, Finger, Scanner, Services, and more.
• CommView, from TamoSoft, Inc., is a program for monitoring Internet and Local Area Network (LAN) activity capable of capturing and analyzing network packets. It gathers information about data passing through your dial-up connection or Ethernet card and decodes the analyzed data.
• TCP Viewer, from Westbrook Software, captures and displays all data that is transferred between client processes and a server process communicating through TCP/IP.