Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Intermittent Network Fault - Newbie Protocol Analyser Help

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From: "Brett Charlton" <bcharlton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:53:46 -0000
Hi there
 
Hope some kind soul out there can help or point me in the right direction.
 
For the last month or so our users have experienced a network failure about once per week.  Rebooting the main 48 port unmanaged switch (netgear) resolves the problem.
 
I would like to inspect what's going on at the switch to try and get to the bottom of the failure.  I've downloaded and installed ethereal, however, I have no idea what I should be looking for in the log files.  Can anyone help?
 
At present we have our W2K servers running on a copper gigabit switch, this switch is then connected to the 48 port switch.  Various other switches are downstream of this switch.
 
I plan on hanging a hub between a downstream switch and its uplink to the 48 port switch and then using ethereal to analyse what's happening.
 
However, I've no idea what I should be looking for!  Can anyone help please??
 
Thanks
 
BC

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