The 7 Most Common Mistakes Using Packet-Sniffers

This article is also covered in a "The Sniffer Guy" podcast--available at http://www.interpathtech.com --and--through iTunes. 1) Believing the "Intelligence" of the Software without understanding how it makes determinations. Software default settings are very seldom correct for YOU. For example, a device may say that a SQL server should respond in 50ms. But, whether that slogan is across a WAN with a 200ms ping time--that is highly unlikely. This causes false SLOW SQL messages. This is alone an example, but there are many such alerts and messages based on default "thresholds" within this type of software tool's configuration. ...

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