An infrastructure for passive network monitoring of application data streams

Conference · Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2003

OSTI ID:832944

Agarwal, Deb ^[1]; Gonzalez, Jose Maria ^[1]; Jin, Guojun ^[1]; Tierney, Brian ^[1]

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1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

When diagnosing network problems, it is often desirable to have a view of traffic inside the network. In this paper we describe an infrastructure for passive monitoring that can be used to determine which segments of the network are the source of problems for an application data stream. The monitoring hosts are relatively low-cost, off-the-shelf PCs. A unique feature of the infrastructure is secure activation of monitoring hosts in the core of the network without direct network administrator intervention.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Director. Office of Science. Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research. Mathematical Information and Computational Sciences Division (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 832944
• Report Number(s): LBNL-51846; R&D Project: K52008; TRN: US200429%%1694
• Resource Relation: Conference: 2003 Passive and Active Measurement Workshop, San Diego, CA (US), 04/2003; Other Information: PBD: 1 Mar 2003
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

42 ENGINEERING
MONITORING
LAWRENCE BERKELEY LABORATORY
NETWORK ANALYSIS
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