SUNFLASH ! ---------- Sunflash is an electronic mail news service from Sun Microsystems, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Please address comments to John McLaughlin (sun!sunvice!johnj or johnmclaughlin@sun.COM). (305) 776-7770. Sunflash is targeted at Sun customers and users, not Sun employees as much of the information posted to sunflash is already available to Sun employees. If you have any information that you think would be of value to Sun users and customers, please email it to sun!sunvice!johnj. FOR Your Information -------------------- This is a new product announcement from USENET. Forwarding this new product announcement in no way implies an endorsement by Sun etc. etc. -johnj ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Date: 25 Sep 89 02:32:05 GMT From: matrix!neeraj@uunet.uu.net (neeraj sangal) Subject: Product announcement-EtherView(tm), a network monitor running on Suns Matrix Computer Systems, Inc. announces EtherView(tm), a SunView based network monitor. This is a tool for network administrators and protocol developers. Here is a partial summary of some of its main features: Load Profile: Allows an administrator to monitor the load on the ethernet over extended periods of time. The administrator can use it to characterize load generated by a node on the network, determine which systems and applications generate how much of the load and how that load fluctuates over long periods of time. NFS Profile: Allows an administrator to determine the load on NFS servers, the average response time of NFS servers and the mix of type of NFS load on each of the servers. Users can use the data to benchmark different NFS servers, determine which servers are overloaded, deduce the number of clients that each server can support and evaluate the effectiveness of NFS accelerators. Protocol Analyser: Users can capture packets based on source, destination, application, protocol, bit pattern, packet size or a boolean filtering expression. It provides standard features such as configurable buffer size, packet slicing and bit pattern based triggering criterion. It does automatic disassembly of NFS, TCP, UDP, IP, ICMP, ARP and RARP packets. Packets can be examined in any combination of summary, hex and detail format. Price, free trial and ordering: Matrix Computer Systems, Inc. 7 1/2 Harris Road Nashua, NH 03062 Tel: (603) 888-7790 eamil: ...uunet!matrix!eview