Even Windows doesn’t have to have an expensive network monitoring tool. The free Total Network Monitor helps you keep an eye on your network.

Traditional administration command-line tools such as ifconfig, route, and arp are almost as old as TCP/IP itself. We provide an overview of how the IPRoute2 toolkit now unifies the management of kernel network components.

Sometimes data that’s five minutes old just isn’t good enough. An abundance of network monitoring tools for SNMP makes a sys admin’s job easier by collecting and displaying a superabundance of constantly changing data.