Network Traffic...

dnribbles · Post by **dnribbles** » Sun Dec 01, 2002 11:04 pm

Hi,

I have downloaded and I'm testing your software at work and I must say it's the best I have seen in a loong time. But as I started showing it to my friends they all got a little worried.

When they saw the 20 test's that I had set up they started talking about how much traffic this must generate on the network and this is no good. I can't belive that this software would bug down the network. Can someone help me come up with a good answer to this?

Help

M@ster · Post by **M@ster** » Mon Dec 02, 2002 1:31 am

Set up a performance Counter and take a look at the traffic. It ain't much

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Mon Dec 02, 2002 1:03 pm

>When they saw the 20 test's that I had set up they started talking about how much traffic this must generate on the network and this is no good

Everything depends on settings. Just for example:
1) You have standard 100Mbit network and setup HostMonitor to perform 20 ping tests every 5 min using 32 bytes packet size (default size). How much HM will generate traffic? Let see: 20*32*2/(100*1024*1024/8*60*5)*100=0.0003255% of bandwidth (about 1/5000000 bandwidth) Is that a problem for network? Of course not at all.
2) You have network based on slow dial-up connection (33,600) and setup HM to perform 20 ping tests every 30 sec using 2K packet size. How much HM will generate traffic in this case? Let see: 20*2048*2/(33600/9*30)*100=73% of bandwidth. That is problem.
So, everything is up to you, use reasonable settings regarding your network.

Regards
Alex

dnribbles · Post by **dnribbles** » Mon Dec 02, 2002 3:59 pm

Thanks for that, I'm just the web guys who wants to check my web sites. But these other guys are the tech heads and started shouting about the damn network and how these monetoring proggs stuff up the network. Well now I have some answers for them.

Thanks a lot

Marcus · Post by **Marcus** » Tue Dec 03, 2002 1:49 am

If a monitoring program 'stuffs up the network', they got a bigger problem than just the monitoring program.

The network guys need a redesign of their network!

rbernier · Post by **rbernier** » Tue Dec 10, 2002 11:35 am

I'm BOTH the network and the web guy where i am, and I'll agree with Marcus. If your web guys are whining, they've got bigger problems.