Network Troubleshooting Tools

Preface; Audience; Organization; Conventions; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Network Management and Troubleshooting; 1.1 General Approaches to Troubleshooting; 1.2 Need for Troubleshooting Tools; 1.3 Troubleshooting and Management; Chapter 2: Host Configurations; 2.1 Utilities; 2.2 System Configuration Files; 2.3 Microsoft Windows; Chapter 3: Connectivity Testing; 3.1 Cabling; 3.2 Testing Adapters; 3.3 Software Testing with ping; 3.4 Microsoft Windows; Chapter 4: Path Characteristics; 4.1 Path Discovery with traceroute; 4.2 Path Performance; 4.3 Microsoft Windows; Chapter 5: Packet Capture; 5.1 Traffic Capture Tools; 5.2 Access to Traffic; 5.3 Capturing Data; 5.4 tcpdump; 5.5 Analysis Tools; 5.6 Packet Analyzers; 5.7 Dark Side of Packet Capture; 5.8 Microsoft Windows; Chapter 6: Device Discovery and Mapping; 6.1 Troubleshooting Versus Management; 6.2 Device Discovery; 6.3 Device Identification; 6.4 Scripts; 6.5 Mapping or Diagramming; 6.6 Politics and Security; 6.7 Microsoft Windows; Chapter 7: Device Monitoring with SNMP; 7.1 Overview of SNMP; 7.2 SNMP-Based Management Tools; 7.3 Non-SNMP Approaches; 7.4 Microsoft Windows; Chapter 8: Performance Measurement Tools; 8.1 What, When, and Where; 8.2 Host-Monitoring Tools; 8.3 Point-Monitoring Tools; 8.4 Network-Monitoring Tools; 8.5 RMON; 8.6 Microsoft Windows; Chapter 9: Testing Connectivity Protocols; 9.1 Packet Injection Tools; 9.2 Network Emulators and Simulators; 9.3 Microsoft Windows; Chapter 10: Application-Level Tools; 10.1 Application-Protocols Tools; 10.2 Microsoft Windows; Chapter 11: Miscellaneous Tools; 11.1 Communications Tools; 11.2 Log Files and Auditing; 11.3 NTP; 11.4 Security Tools; 11.5 Microsoft Windows; Chapter 12: Troubleshooting Strategies; 12.1 Generic Troubleshooting; 12.2 Task-Specific Troubleshooting; Appendix A: Software Sources; A.1 Installing Software; A.2 Generic Sources; A.3 Licenses; A.4 Sources for Tools; Appendix B: Resources and References; B.1 Sources of Information; B.2 References by Topic; B.3 References; Colophon;