Online Tool
New Favorite Packet Analyzer in The Cloud
Dec 7th
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I have been trying to track down a network issue I’ve been having at work for the last month and a half. It’s a real pain because it only happens once a week randomly, and it only lasts for 2 to 5 minutes. Since it’s so unpredictable, it’s nearly impossible to track down how, or why it’s happening.
Anyway, I decided to setup Wireshark on a laptop, plug it into a port on my switch with mirroring enabled, and collect some network traffic. The problem I have with Wireshark is that it doesn’t display information is a way that is easy for me to read.
A buddy of mine recommended uploading my capture files to an online analyzer called CloudShark. This thing is actually pretty cool, and really easy to use. Plus it has easy graphing options so you can get a better visual idea of all the 1’s and 0’s you’re looking at.
Another cool thing about CloudShark is that once you’re capture is uploaded, you can forward the URL of your capture files to some of your Network Engineer buddies to get their take on what’s going on in your network, and they don’t need to break out any analyzers of their own. Everything is displayed right in their browser!
Here is a link to an example capture file: http://www.cloudshark.org/captures/f62e1db77ba0
One thing I did notice is that you need to use CloudShark in Internet Explorer or Firefox. It doesn’t work so well in Chrome.
Know of any other good, free and easy to use packet analyzer tools? Are they cloud based like this one? Let us know what you like to use in the comments.
-=El Di Pablo=-
Mombo uses Twitter to let you know what movies are good.
Jul 6th
I watch a lot of movies. Well in all fairness I used to watch a lot more movies than I do now but I get in about 2 a week. It is always difficult to decide what I want to watch. Sometimes I check out the reviews in the papers or online but how do I know if the reviewer’s personality matches my own? How do I know if he or she like it that I will too? Well I don’t.
So now a website liked Mombo is a welcomed new comer. What Mombo does is simple. It aggregates all tweets about actors and movies and displays them on their site. Now you can choose a specific movie and hear what Twitter user’s have to say about them. The site also lets you vote on the movies on their homepage and you can find out at a glance what the best new movies are. You can use their search feature to locate a movie or actor and hear what the Twitterverse has to say about them. When you arrive at their home page this is what you will see:
On the main screen you will see the first tab which is In theaters now. These are movies that are playing now. You can see what the Mombo users score the movie and watch a trailer from this screen as well. Live tweets will scroll by about the movie and there are statistics about how many mentions a day each of the new movies are getting.
