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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

As a Network Forensic

Here are my first lines about how investigating on our production network.

One of my tasks in my current job is to do some "network forensic".

As a CSI agent :)
picture from http://www.critikeurs.fr/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/CSI.jpg

As a CSI agent with a crime, we have to investigate and find the cause of some network problems: link down, bad performance or lost packets (in trading rooms, the packet loss may even be more critical, it is hard to believe that banks can lose a lot of money by losing a packet). 

To be able to provide a cause to network problems, here some clues to check: