Internet slow?

[mandg]

Is there a tool out there (preferrably free) that will monitor the health of our network bandwidth? The network is simply made up of a PIX firewall, 7200 router, and about 8 catalyst switches.

I'd like to have something that could show realtime bottlenecks, the offender(s), and pull reports. Hopefully there's something that can monitor both WAN and LAN.

TIA!

 

[PalmTest]

Have you tried the Windows XP command pathping?
Open a Command Prompt and enter pathping /? to see all the options.

Point your Internet Explorer to

http://www.snapfiles.com

and search for traceroute (top right).
Scroll through the results and see if you can find a nice freeware tool.

 

[gwildfire]

Not free but Solarwinds is an SNMP program that offers those sort of facilities at a resonable price.

Visit

http://www.Cisco-Engineer.com

for free Cisco rack access.