Archive for February 2008
The 7 Most Common Mistakes Using Packet-Sniffers
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This article is also covered in a “The Sniffer Guy” podcast–available at http://www.interpathtech.com –and–through iTunes.
1) Believing the “Intelligence” of the Software without understanding how it makes determinations.
Software default settings are very seldom correct for YOU. For example, a device may say that a SQL server should respond in 50ms. But, if that device is across a WAN with a 200ms ping time–that is highly unlikely. This causes false SLOW SQL messages. This is only an example, but there are many such alerts and messages based on default “thresholds” within this type of software tool’s configuration.
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