Tips for troubleshooting without packet capture

Troubleshooting FTP errors typically means capturing packets in order to analyze them or retrieve them later, but that's not always necessary when you don't need to save frames for further inspection. Tony Fortunato from the Technology Firm offers some tips for using the "Monitor Mode" of Fluke Networks' ClearSight protocol analyzer. In this mode, the analyzer monitors all incoming and outgoing traffic and provides a summary of the information from Layer 2 through Layer 7.

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