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rtodt@relay.nswc.navy.mil (Rodney Todt - E41) writes:

> Can anyone advise me about the subject product.

The Trakker looks pretty interesting.  We've been shopping around for
something similar, and will try to get one in for evaluation.  In its
favor, it can follow multi-packet transactions, so it can tell that an NFS
request, or an ARP, has gone out with no response being returned.  The
hardware seems powerful enough to follow a heavily loaded net, and the user
interface is slick (though potentially slow).  It also does the standard
things: duplicate IP address detection, alarms on traffic levels or
particular packet types (redirects, quench etc), traffic breakdown by
address, protocol, etc.

As negative points, it's expensive, and it doesn't understand any protocols
except TCP/IP and DECNET.  Concord plans to add Netware support "soon" and
Vines support eventually (and some others that I can't remember), but
that's it for now.

> In general, it is suppose to be a supplement to SNMP.

This is kinda misleading - it's built on top of SNMP, as are all good
network-monitoring packages these days.

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