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CHAPTER 3. NETWORK MONITORING METHODS
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3.4 Summary
The development of network monitoring methods is an ongoing process. Dierent new
methods are published but they are no longer universal being applicable for a limited
number of protocols, features, or certain conditions.
Besides, new customer PCs are powerful enough today that we are able to run monitoring
software without disturbing the user. For example, NETI@home could be this kind of
an end-to-end software tool. Of course, capturing and analysing data from this kind of
monitor is small scale and only tells about particular user connection. When we have this
same data for thousands and thousands users, however, it is possible to draw some larger
more general conclusions from this collective data.