IMPLEMENTATION OF A REAL TIME PROTOCOL ANALYZER IN WNDOWS OPERATING ENVIRONMENT
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A network protocol analyzer is a tool that would
capture data packets from the network from the data link layer with the
objectives of analyzing each of the data packets captured. This may served as
an important tool in network performance monitoring where system administration
is able to use this tool to detect network fault area. Besides that, it can
also help a student in the study of network protocols where network protocols
can be captured in real time and also how a network protocols works.
Specialized hardware network protocol analyzer is of too expensive and thus may
be out reach by a normal student or even for a network lab. However, with the
advancement of Personal Computer Technology, a software network protocol
analyzer may work comparatively well as the specialized hardware network
protocol analyzer. The objective of this project is to implement a software
network protocol analyzer that would run on 32-bit Microsoft Windows platform
operating system. The author hopes that through the use of such a protocol
analyzer, he can deepen his networking knowledge.
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B. Sc. (Hons) In Business Information Technology