Have you ever been on a pentest, or troubleshooting a customer issue, and the "next step" was to capture packets on a Windows host?  Then you find that installing winpcap or wireshark was simply out of scope or otherwise not allowed on that SQL, Exchange, Oracle or other host?  It used to be that this is when we'd recommend installing Microsoft's Netmon packet capture utility, but even then lots of IT managers would hesitate about using the "install" word in association with a critical server.  Well, as they say in networking (and security as well), there's always another way, and this is that way.

"netsh trace" is your friend.  And yes, it does exactly what it sounds like it does.

Matlab Tools for Network Analysis (2006-2011)

This toolbox was first written in 2006. The last version, posted here, is from November 2011. These routines are useful for someone who wants to start hands-on work with networks fairly quickly, explore simple graph statistics, distributions, simple visualization and compute common network theory metrics. The code is not object-oriented, and should be easy to use, read and improve upon. There is some overlap with the grTheory toolbox and the MatlabBGL library published on Matlab Central. Different authorship is indicated in the header. No code is perfect so please contact gergana at alum dot mit.edu if you notice errors or have pointers to better routines.

This code is published under the BSD license. The license text is also available at the end of this page.