#MICROSOFT NETWORK MONITY INSTALL#
#MICROSOFT NETWORK MONITY FREE#

Every network card and network device (eg: router) in the world has a unique MAC address.

WARNING: IP addresses tend to change when you restart your computer, and so a better solution is to use MAC addresses.

'Physical Address' is your unique 'MAC address'. 'Default Gateway' is the IP address of the router through with you connect to the internet. After you hit enter you will see your 'IP address'.

You can find your IP address by clicking Start > Run then type 'cmd' then enter 'ipconfig/alll' into the command prompt.

Each computer in your network is given its own IP address (eg: 192.168.0.45).

In the Display Filter window click Aliases and then New to add a new Alias.

NOTE: If you see nothing appear do open a browser and do a Google search - and you should notice several entries appear immediately.

The trick is making sense of these frames! What you will soon see is a stream of frames appear in the ' Frame Summary'' window.

Click New Capture and then Start up the top.

The program should immediately recognize your network card (ticked in the ' Selected Networks' window) and you can begin.

#MICROSOFT NETWORK MONITY INSTALL#

Download and install Microsoft Network Monitor (you'll probably want ' NM33_x86.exe').Getting Started Start Capturing and Create Aliases A packet sniffer however will read EVERY packet. In most cases, all the computers in your home or small business will be connected to the internet through a single switch or router (connected to the internet via a modem), and this will 'broadcasts' any traffic it receives to every computer! This means that every piece of information send to from your computer is actually send out to every computer, but only the computer that it is addressed to will actually process the information. It can be used to troubleshoot network problems, but in my case I used this program in 2009 to help find out who in my house was using up all our download quota! I found the program quite good, but would be very interested if there is something better out there, considering all I wanted to do was tally the number of packets my housemates were receiving from outside the network.Ī packet sniffer is a program (or sometimes a piece of hardware) which intercepts and logs all traffic passing through your network.

#MICROSOFT NETWORK MONITY FREE#

Microsoft Network Monitor is a free packer sniffer which allows you to capture, view and analyzing traffic over your network. NOTE: This page is a daughter page of: Microsoft

Microsoft network monity