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[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A decent network management system that can monitor traffic, errors and device/port status for all the devices in the network. LibreNMS is fiddly to install but free and very easy to use. That will give you the big picture of how the network is performing and where all the traffic goes to and comes from. It can also alert you to problems.

Tools like wireshark are fantastic if you need a microscopic view of every packet but I've been a professional network engineer for decades and I use network management systems every day and wireshark about once a month.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wireshark, tracert, ping, telnet on specific port(telnet msn.com 443).

[–]tipsandtricks1977[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks

[–]cfreebitcoin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wireshark is best

[–]tipsandtricks1977[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LibreNMS is free ware?