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- From: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
- Subject: Re: Network software
- Message-ID: <1659@shaman.wv.tek.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 23:51:16 GMT
- References: <Bt8oE1.447@rice.edu>
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- Reply-To: andrew@frip.wv.tek.com
- Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville, Oregon
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- > EtherPeek - AG
-
- This is a protocol snooper. When it works, it's quite good. A big win
- is that you can examine old packets while continuing to gather new ones.
-
- When it doesn't work, it's horrid. It has crashed on me more times
- than I can count. I've learned to save important packet traces to disk
- before trying to examine any packets.
-
- Its major design flaw is that it can't distinguish PAP from ASP from ...
- packets on its own, but requires the user to select a decoder. You
- must make this selection *each* time you click on a packet; it has no
- memory of what protocol layer you're working with. Competing products
- handle this much better.
-
- -=- Andrew Klossner (andrew@frip.wv.tek.com)
- (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)
-