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- From: sbk@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
- Subject: Re: Network software
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.200901.14721@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 20:09:00 EDT
- References: <Bt8oE1.447@rice.edu> <1659@shaman.wv.tek.com> <1992Aug31.221106.9396@gordian.com>
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- Organization: Cornell University
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- I would like to put in another plug for EtherPeek. It is a gorgeous product.
- I have been running it for a bit over a year -- on 1.5.x now -- and have had no
- crashing problems. Can't vouch for the earlier versions of the product.
-
- My chief complaint is incompleteness of the protocol decodes. RIP, for
- instance, or much of Novell's NCP. Just received improved versions of the
- Novell decodes, though; will bench them against my Sniffer later this week.
-
- Netminder (Neon Software) is another nice product. Interface is not as clean,
- but it offers additional capabilities -- easier filtering, for instance.
-
- --sk
-
- In article <1992Aug31.221106.9396@gordian.com>,
- johnk@gordian.com (John Kalucki) writes:
- > 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
- >
-