Re: Yahoo! Lessons Learned

[NANOG Mailing List <nanog () EnterZone Net>]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Wayne Bouchard wrote:

> > > And finally, would they be more successfull in tracking the source the
> > > the problem by doing something different?
>
> So thats another interesting question.. How do you go about doing a
> packet trace on routers passing giabits of traffic every second
> without killing the router/network and actually get usefull
> information out of it?
>
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> Wayne Bouchard                                    [Immagine Your    ]
> web () typo org                                      [Company Name Here]
> Network Engineer
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You bridge another device in line and have THAT device collect your data.
Not as trivial for OCx connected routers but still possible.

John Fraizer
EnterZone, Inc