You can monitor Gopher sessions by using the Performance Monitor and, to a lesser extent, netstat.
The netstat utility can be difficult to use with Gopher because Gopher sessions are very short and you cannot always activate netstat in time to receive any meaningful data. Netstat shows static information at a given point in time. Netstat is best used to determine the status of connections.
You can run netstat from a command prompt. For an explanation of netstat command syntax, see Table 1.4, earlier in this chapter.
Performance Monitor shows events happening in real time. Performance Monitor is best used to check the status of users, file transfers, and byte transfers. For a listing of real-time statistics displayed by Performance Monitor for Gopher, see Table 1.5, earlier in this chapter.