RFMON stands for Radio Frequency MONitor mode. It is a special mode for wireless network interfaces that allows a device to capture all radio traffic it can receive on a wireless channel, regardless of the intended recipient. All Wi-Fi radios can go into different modes, but that does not mean you can make that happen. […]
Here are several VoIP troubleshooting checklists and tools, organized by focus area to help quickly identify and resolve common issues. These checklists are especially useful for IT admins, NOC teams, and VoIP engineers. Are they “the bees knees” of troubleshooting VoIP? No. In fact, if you have feedback or comments on improving these lists, please
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At our Online School of Network Science, we have created a Network Scientist Tool Belt. This completely free resource is available for you to access, learn and add software and hardware tools to troubleshoot todays networks. You will just need to set up a free account, and the link will get you there. You will
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As a follow on to my article on whether AI can be used in Networking, this post dives in deeper to a question of will humans still be involved? And if so, how do we upskill that human expertise? To successfully integrate AI into network automation while ensuring human expertise is maintained, organizations and IT
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Whether you are performing preventive maintenance or repairing routers or switches or any other network equipment, you need a solid toolkit to easily perform the task. First, let me list for you what I have in my service/repair toolkit. These items are mostly available at Amazon, of course, and if you click any of the
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For all my troubleshooting network friends, I have compiled a list below of the top software-based network troubleshooting tools that you need to have and know. It you want to add hardware to your toolkit – have a look at our “Go Bag“ If you want to know more about the commands mentioned below check
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The whois command is a tool commonly used on various operating systems, including Linux, MacOS, and Windows, to query databases that store the registered users or assignees of an Internet resource, such as a domain name, an IP address block, or an autonomous system. It can provide information such as the domain owner, contact information,
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In our prior article on companion tools for Wireshark (link), we provided a list of tools that network analysts, operations, maintainers or just curious people should consider. All these were stand alone tools. What about Internet/Web Browser based sites that you may find useful? This thought raises certain issues, like this scenario: the network is
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Wireshark is a powerful network protocol analyzer used by network professionals for troubleshooting, analysis, development, and education. Companion tools can enhance its functionality or help in related tasks. If you are looking for hard tools we have a list of what we carry in our “go bag” here. Here are some websites and tools that
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If you use Windows and you are a Networking person technical or non-technical, you will find our toolkit to put all the useful Windows capabilities at your fingertips in a simple menu driven batch file. Before we start, you can download and install this toolkit here (instructions for installing are provided on that page). Here
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The following are some AI tools that you may find very useful in your life and even small business. For example, Microsoft is in the process of launching a Microsoft 365 AI based assistant called Copilot for the office suite of programs (you can read more about this here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2023/03/16/introducing-microsoft-365-copilot-a-whole-new-way-to-work/) There are a lot of doubts
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Who is on my network? Great question. Better yet: Who is on my customer’s network? That would be looking at the issue from a service provider’s perspective. This article attempts to answer that question with tips and tricks and tools that will help you, whether you are the owner of a network or a service provider.
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In this article we will get you started with the iPerf tool. We will be using it in a Linux environment, but know that it is available for all systems at http://iperf.fr. iPerf is used to test performance, throughput, packet loss, and jitter on TCP/IP networks. iPerf defaults to testing TCP – port number 5002. iPerf
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How can you verify your Wi-Fi is on the right channel, who else is interfering? We wish that was easy. And at a normal user level it is. First you need a Wi-Fi scanner. The following is a growing list of Wi-Fi Scanning Utilities for various platforms. Most all are free, at least to
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Check out these great references as well: Our custom profiles repository for Wireshark Our Udemy course on Wireshark Our Udemy course on Wireless Packet capture It’s Sunday, it’s Father’s Day, and it is the day before Sharkfest 2017! One of the best presents has been that TRANSUM has been included as a plugin with Wireshark
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