Wireshark for Network Management
Thursday, October-22-2009
An edited version of this article was originally printed in the May 2009 edition of Hakin9 Magazine under Tool Reviews. As an IT consultant I frequently need to monitor and analyze network traffic. Wireshark is easily the tool of choice.
Introduction:
The great white is one of the undisputed masters of the open seas and with knowledge and training Wireshark can help the network admin or consultant master that sea of data that flows across the networks of the world. Originally developed by Gerald Combs in 1998 and available as free/open source software under the name Ethereal, the project grew to encompass
Posted by mike.shafer on 10-22-2009 at 11:10 am
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This article is part 2 of a 2 part series: Part 1 is at Why Is Cisco Equipment a Smart Investment for Small Businesses?
Moving from the broad over view lets now move into demonstrating some of the direct benefits of the more commonly implemented features of Cisco router and switches by using a simple, small office scenario as a case study.
Typical of a small organization is there are departments for financial matters, marketing and sales and one or more managers. The personnel in each of these areas has specific computer function and data needs with some being in common such 
Having worked at IT consulting on a part time basis since 1986 and full-time for the past seven years I've had the opportunity to work with a lot of small to mid-sized organizations varying in size from the one person home office to entities with revenues in the mid-eight figure range and just under 100 employees.
At first blush there would seem to be vast differences in the networking needs of each but in fact I would argue there's not. At least not in my opinion. Fact is I recommend Cisco equipment for the smallest home office and up and the