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03.14.2008 at 07:34AM PDT, ID: 23241813
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How to monitor broadcast traffic

Asked by neptuneit in Network Analysis Software, Miscellaneous Networking, Network Switches & Hubs

Tags: Networking

I am at the beginning of a project to implement VLANs on our network. Our main reason for the VLAN project is to reduce broadcast traffic. My question is this,

How can I get a "before" and "after" picture of how much broadcast traffic is on our network so I can measure the effectiveness of this project?

I have used Ethereal before for monitoring specific ports, but I'm not aware of a way to measure broadcast traffic for the entire network, not just one port. Any ideas?

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Tags: Networking
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