Posts Tagged With ‘SPAN’

  1. The Network Capture Playbook Part 4 – SPAN Port In-Depth

    We have briefly covered SPAN ports in previous posts of this series, but there are so many things to consider that we have to look at the advantages and problems more closely. Even more so since it looks like there is a constant “battle” going on between SPAN and TAP supporters – some analysts will […]

  2. Frame bytes vs. frame file headers

    When capturing frames from a network there is more information recorded into the capture file than just the bytes of each frame. If you have ever looked at the PCAP or PCAPng file format specifications you have seen that each frame has an additional frame header containing important information that wasn’t part of the frame […]

  3. Diagnosing intermittent “network” problems

    There’s that one thing that customers usually ask, and that question is if I would be able to help diagnosing a problem on the network. My answer has two parts: If we can capture the problem situation in packets, I will find it When I find it, I’ll tell you if it’s a network problem […]