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Conference 7.286::fddi

Title:FDDI - The Next Generation
Moderator:NETCAD::STEFANI
Created:Thu Apr 27 1989
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2259
Total number of notes:8590

2100.0. "FDDI analyser - which one to choose ?" by GIDDAY::STANISLAUS () Sat Aug 03 1996 09:38

                                
    	We finaly got some money to buy an FDDI analyser for our CSC. I
    read note 112, but couldn't make any conclusion on which FDDI analyser
    to choose - Network General's Sniffer or W&G's DA30 or HP's Network
    Advisor or something altogether different. 
    
    What I am specically looking in order of prefence are:
    
    1)Ease of use - Friendly User interface. Don't mind reading thick
    manuals on how to use, as long as the manuals are good and have good
    examples.
    
    2)Able to detect problems on the ring, such as beaconing, stuck
    beaconing, source of such problems. Aslo detect problems where many
    nodes (or all nodes) in a ring log RING INIT RECEIVED counts, but no
    node logs RING INIT INITIATED counts.
    
    3)Protocol Decodes (TCP/IP and DNA and OSI)
    
    4)Ring Utilisation and Performance Monitoring
    
    5)Traffic Generation on FDDI ring
    
    6)Easy to transport (although not a big issue)
    
    7)Distributor in Australia (I can find that one, once I get some
    recommendations).
    
    Alphonse
    
    
    	To let you know my desire - I like the HP4972A for Ethernet. I am
    looking for something as good or better for FDDI.
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