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Smart Potato is an application that allows you to access and manage your Media Center recordings and stream recorded TV. But when I first attempted to test this out on my phone, it complained that it could not reach the server. Detailed below is how I used Network Monitor to troubleshoot this issue....

You folks have been asking for updated videos about filtering and now I’ve made two more available. These include information about filtering with properties to understand how to access TCP and SMB values that don’t appear directly on the wire. We talk about operands and how to filter out traffic you...

by Darren J. Fisher – Network Monitor Development Lead Capturing network traffic is actually a very stressful task for most computers. With modern networks, traffic can arrive to a system at astounding rates. Most machines built these days have at least 1 Gbps network interfaces. When connected...

It's often useful to understand how long it takes for a request to get responded to. This helps you gauge how well a client or server is keeping up. This type of measurement can also be done at different layers; however there are some tricks you'll have to learn. FrameVariable.TimeDelta In order...

Collected here are a list of the most common data fields and properties. They are categorized by protocol. This list is helpful for getting an idea of the most common data fields and properties with descriptions of what they do. The list will continue to grow as we add new propreties, indetify helpful...

We can categorize traffic into two general types; directed and broadcast traffic. In the most general sense, a broadcast is sent to anybody that wants to listen. What I’d like to talk about is how broadcasts work and what they are used for. How broadcasts work In general a broadcast is a special...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, than a video must be worth, …30fps * 1000 * …uh…ok…, like a whole lot. So this blog is going to be devoted to providing short help videos to help understand how to use the features of NM3. My original intention was to provide a...

1. Introduction One of the most common protocols that we need to deal with these days is the HTTP Protocol. This is not only a privilege of Internet users, there are a lot of Intranet users that also use this protocol for internal transactions. This post will show how to use Network Monitor 3 to...

Color Filters in Network Monitor are a simple way to make frames stick out in a trace. Dealing with large traces often makes it difficult to see important information. The sea of data represented by network traffic becomes a difficult backdrop to catch errors that occur. This blog will focus on creating...

One of the exciting new features in NM3.1 is the ability to capture wireless network data and management packets on Vista. This new feature provides Network Monitor a useful tool for trouble shooting wireless problems. What do you mean, wireless Management packets? With the introduction of NDIS6, we...

This is not some existential trip or search for life's meaning. Rather this refers to a feature protocol analyzers use to narrow down traffic in a network trace. I mentioned this briefly in my Cable Talk Blog back on November 15 th , 2006. In fact you should refresh your memory as we'll refer to topics...

Performance issues are one of the more difficult problems to trouble shoot. Without a baseline, it's often hard to determine if something is really slower. But TCP does contain some built-in behavioral patterns that can be used as a signal to tell you something may be wrong with your network. So the...

Conversations for network protocols have been around for ages. But protocol analyzers have not been built to take advantage of them in the way NM3 does. Using the conversation tree and filters that reference conversations, make NM3 a powerful ally when trying to narrow down traffic. It's important...

Challenges of Filtering One of the biggest changes between NM2.x and NM3.0 is the way you do filtering. Old NM2.x hacks may be challenged by the loss of the UI wizard to build filters. On the other hand, Ethereal users may be pleased and further encouraged by the built in intellisense, but more on...