Network layer packet analysis using MENeT

Telecommunication networks grow in scale along many dimensions. Among these, one of the dimensions is analysis of network traffic and prediction of the traffic for future networks. The fast growth of DCN (data communication networks) over the past decades has resulted in the development of various network utilities, which perform network evaluation in different domains. We present Monitor for Ethernet Network Traffic (MENeT). The toolkit is an extension. to the earlier developed utility for traffic monitoring. The purpose of MENeT is to capture and dissemble the packets flowing through a LAN (local area network) pipe. The execution mode of the MENeT is absolutely at run time. MENeT tracks the packets as they move on from the lowest layer to the upper layer in the TCPAP protocol stack; it efficiently decrypts all the incoming packets using the RFC (request for comments) standards. The MENeT is developed to be operational on the platform of Windows NT/2000. The results suggest that the MENeT successfully decrypts all the incoming network traffic accurately and efficiently.