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- From: johnk@gordian.com (John Kalucki)
- Subject: Re: Network software
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.221106.9396@gordian.com>
- Sender: news@gordian.com
- Organization: Gordian; Costa Mesa, CA
- References: <Bt8oE1.447@rice.edu> <1659@shaman.wv.tek.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 22:11:06 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In article <1659@shaman.wv.tek.com>, andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner) writes:
- >> 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.
-
- Yes I agree! And it's much better at decoding Appletalk than Network
- General's sniffer. But then Sniffer is much better at TCP/IP and
- LAT...
-
-
- >
- >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.
-
- Make SURE you have the latest version! I've been using EtherPeek
- constantly for 1.5 years now and I've seen it evolve from a pretty
- buggy peice of software into a very stable (for the Mac at at least)
- system. I'm running 1.4.2 and it hardly crashes. The folks at
- the ag group are pretty good via e-mail, BTW.
- >
- >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.
-
- They are working on this for the next release. They are going to fix
- the 'resize the packet decode window on each new packet' problem too.
-
- >
- > -=- Andrew Klossner (andrew@frip.wv.tek.com)
- > (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)
-
-
- -John Kalucki
- johnk@gordian.com
-
-