[Sussex] RE: Network Monitoring Talk [Was: Moots]

[Lee W]

Hi Steve,

>I've book you in for August 25th.  Enough time to prepare?
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Should be enough time, although I believe there may be a possiblity of 
Gavin doing a "New to Linux" talk as said in your original.  This 
doesn't look as thought it has been confirmed yet, but I would hate to 
step on his toes.

>I would suggest you also look at classics like netstat and tcpdump but
>if the functionality is better in one of the other packages then as it
>is your presentation they do was you feel.
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I was thinking more around the long time analysis/monitoring/alerting 
type of apps as opposed to the tools you mention (aren't they more for 
network diagnostics when you already know you have a problem?) but I 
will see if I can mention in the talk so as to give an idea where they 
would fit in, that is if people feel it is appropriate.

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>Network monitoring is a useful tool.  How else can you chack if you're
>using the correct ports or find out where in the chain something is
>going wrong.
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>Steve
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In general how long should the talks be?  Marks' was about 1/2 hour 
wasn't it, is that the average length?

Thanks

Lee