Microsoft Network Monitor – Tool to allow capturing and protocol analysis of network traffic
Network Monitor is a protocol analyzer. It allows you to capture
network traffic, view and analyze it. This version is a complete
overhaul of the previous Network Monitor 2.x version.
Instructions
Network
Monitor can co-exist with older versions of Network Monitor. NM3
installs in %program files%Microsoft Network Monitor 3.0, so there is
no conflict.
For Microsoft Vista, Microsoft has a new driver that
supports new features available in the NDIS 6.0 driver. If you are
using tools that rely on Network Monitor 2.x NPPTools, these tools will
no longer work.
Capturing on Vista requires NM3, as Netmon2.x does
not capture properly on Vista. If during installation, you opt to use
Microsoft Update to receive critical updates, then the installer will
configure your system to receive these updates. If this configuration
fails (because, for example, your Automatic Update settings are managed
by a network administrator), the installation will continue without
informing you. To ensure you have successfully signed up for Microsoft
update, go here. If the configuration was successful, the site will
provide information about available updates. If not, the site allows
you to sign up for Microsoft Update directly.
Warning: Capturing
with the NM3 GUI with conversations enabled can use up considerable
amount of memory. This may cause a machine to become unresponsive. If
you need to capture data for long periods of time, please use the
included command line utility, NMCap, and the /DisableConversations
switch.
System requirements:
– It is
suggested that you have a CPU of 1GHz or greater, 1G or greater of
Memory and 25 Megs of available Hard Disk space, plus room for capture
files.
