Every network administrator needs a good network monitor for network management. But with so many to choose from it’s hard to know which one is best. This especially applies to the open source world. Go to Freshmeat.net and you will find 191 entries for open source network analyzers and network tools. Of those many are [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jan 23rd, 2009
- Comments: None
Monitor your Network the Open Source way with Etherape
Measure exact throughput of any TCP IP network
Wondering how much traffic can be pulled through the network you’re working in during certain period of time or how quickly your network components work? Yeah, be a networking proffesional or a regular home user with a small LAN (like me :) ), it’s always good to know what’s your network capable of. But how [...]
Automatically Adjust the Process Priority
There is no automatic way to adjust the priority of a process in Windows using the default tools supplied by Microsoft. It is possible to adjust the current process priority but this setting is only valid for the current setting. Once the process gets killed, for example by closing the application or rebooting, it reverts the priority back to the default one.
EventID 4226: TCP/IP has reached the security limit
Windows XP with Service Pack 2 and Windows Vista have both a TCP/IP connection limit that limits the half-open connections of the system. If that limit is reached a new entry in the Event Viewer is created stating “EventID 4226: TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent TCP connect attempts.”.
