Sniffer Pro: Network Optimization & Troubleshooting Handbook

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| Q: | I am concerned about the accuracy of my analysis. How do I know that I am going toward the right solutions to my possible problems? | |
| A: | Every network you analyze and perform performance monitoring on will vary in design, configuration, and application flows. Every experience that you have had up to the next network you analyze will hopefully be building up one important thing: your ability to isolate, diagnose, and resolve any network problem on any network. You cannot know it all. That said, you need to use many tools and resources to accurately resolve network performance issues. Reading this chapter and, more important, this book, will provide you the tools you need and some expert insight on what steps to take. | |
| Q: | While monitoring a network in real time for two weeks and getting random captures, I still can t find a problem, and the users are still complaining of slow network performance. I am starting to feel foolish; is the Sniffer Pro broken or am I? | |
| A: | No, no, no. It is important to view each network performance... |