Router Troubleshooters

Router Troubleshooters Following is a list of the best router configuration, troubleshooting, IP accounting, IP addresses tester, Pinger and simulator software. RouterConsole V1.1.2 RouterConsole V1.1.2 gets the detail such as ARP table, Memory pool table, Cisco Running configuration, IP-Accounting data from Cisco Router, Routing table and Interface table and shows the detail in different graphs and interfaces.

Router Tester 1.02 Router Testers is an application that is used to accurately identify the path of the HTML status page of the routers. Cisco Pinger This script is used to ping the list of the IP addresses and each router in the list will ping all the IP addresses in the list. After the test completes that how many unique pink combinations were sent and how many pings were failed. You can test any router to router connectivity in your network and identify the problematic router.

Router IP Console

Router IP Console is a SNMP tool that is designed for the management of the IP routers. It can work well with the Cisco Routers and raise an alert when a critical situation is occurred such as when a Router’s CPU is overloaded, interface or memory problems. It has user friendly interface and you can get the alerts by emails. Also have ping monitor and Cisco CPU/MEM indicator.

Cisco Command Sender

This tool is designed for sending the number of non-configuration commands to a set of routers. The number of routers can be from 1 to 100 or even more. Each command is entered is verified that the router did not report an error when using the command. If no error found then the log summary shows that the script has been run successfully. The configuration commands can also be sent by this utility “Global Router Configurator” as it has better error checking mechanism and also capable of clear log, clear counter write memory and configure replace.

Port Mapper 1.0

Port Mapper 1.0 is a freeware utility that manages the port forwarding table on your home router and it allows the home users to do port forwarding on your routers securely and automatically. It can also be used to show the applications to your friends over the internet.

AdventNet ManageEngine OpUtils 4

AdventNet ManageEngine OpUtils is a real time monitoring and troubleshooting tools for the poor network performance, heavy bandwidth utilization, connectivity problems, high CPU usage, delayed response time, device availability, software inventory and hardware utilization. AdventNet ManageEngine OpUtils has a collection of 45 monitoring and troubleshooting tools. OpUtils provides web based results for any network node.

IP Accounting v1.0

IP accounting software gets the IP accounting data from the Cisco Routers and switches. Using this software a number of bytes and packets can be seen that are switched through the Cisco IOS software on the basis of source and destination IP addresses. To maintain the accuracy of this software two databases are maintained one is active and other is checkedpoint.

Is the Friend's WAN network?

A WAN (Wide Area Network) is a data communication network that covers a broad geographic area.  The term WAN applies to the broader telecommunication infrastructure.  Router is the main communication device in the WAN networks. How WAN Works? A WAN is a network of interconnected devices such as router, switches, modems, wireless devices, DSL services, frame relay devices, access servers, ISDN terminal adapters, DSU devices and WAN switches.  The most common WAN circuits are packet switching, circuit switching and point to point communication.  In WAN routing the routing table contains the IP addresses of the source and destination devices.  On the basis of the routing table, the router chooses the best possible shortest path for the packets.

A point to point link is also known as a leased line and which provides the communication between two remote locations through a carrier network such as Telecommunication Company.  In circuit switching a carrier network is involved in establishing, maintaining and terminating communication session. In packet switching, the communication devices share point to point link to transfer packets from the source and destination. Dial-up services provide cost effective solutions for WAN connectivity.

WAN Technologies

The WAN technologies operate at the lowest level of the OSI layer model.

ATM

ATM or Asynchronous Transfer Mode is a high bandwidth and high speed wide area network technology that operates at the speed of 155Mbps.  ATM is also called cell relay and it supports multiple data types such as data, voice, video etc.  ATM uses fixed sized packets for data communication that are also known as packets.

Dial UP

Dial up WAN provide the cost effective communication solutions.  Dial up demand and dial up backup is the two WAN dial up services.  In a DDR, a router dynamically initiates a call on a switched circuit when it requires sending data. 

In dial backup, switched circuit is used to provide the backup services for other types of networks such as PPP or packet switching.

X.25

X.25 is a data communication protocol in the packet switched networks.  X.25 allows computers at the remote locations to communicate with each other through a centralized computer.

Frame Relay

Frame relay is a very high speed and high performance WAN protocol.  Frame relay operates at the physical and data link layers of the OSI model.  Frame relay is a networking method that is designed for the data transmission between LAN and WAN.

ISDN Lines

Integrated Services Digital Network is a WAN communication method over the regular telephone lines.

Circuit Switching

In WAN, when a router has data for the remote site the switched circuit is initiated.  When two remote networks communicate and authenticate then the communication starts.  ISDN is the best example of the circuit switching network.

Packet Switching

In packet switching the common carrier resources are shared between the remote networks.  ATM, Frame Relay and X.25 are the examples of the packet switched networks.  In this technology, the network has connections into the carrier networks and some portion of the carrier network is shared.

CSU/DSU

Channel Circuit Unit/Digital Circuit Unit is a device that is used to connect a router with the digital circuit like T1.

WAN Routing

WAN routing is a technique of forwarding the packets towards the destination based on the IP address of the next hop.