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- Surveyor Lite Version 1.0 Build 1 04/19/99
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-
- README.TXT
- ==========
- This README.TXT file contains important information about
- Shomiti Systems' Surveyor Lite Version 1.0 software.
-
- Please read this file in its entirety for the latest
- information regarding this release of Surveyor.
-
- NEW FEATURES:
-
- -Application Response time is displayed in its own window.
-
- -Following Capture View Enhancements have been made:
- o Set mark function - allows the user to select a packet and mark
- it as time zero.
- o High level address display - allows the user to view source and
- destination network address summary.
- o Ability to select layer to display in summary
- o Ability to save selected packets
- o Ability to print selected packets with option to print summary,
- detail or both to file.
-
- -Real Time Name learning has been added. In addition, the names
- learned on remote (Explorer/Surveyor) machines are also polled
- for local display.
-
- -Function Keys definitions have been added to access the most common
- operations.
-
- -Surveyor Lite is intended for educational use only. Functionalities such
- as remote monitoring/analysis, expert analysis, and traffic generation have
- been disabled. Captured packets also have been limited to the last 100
- packets.
-
-
- Table of Contents
- =================
- 1.0 Hardware Requirements & Software Compatibility
- 2.0 Software Installation
- 2.1 Overview
- 2.2 New Installation
- 2.3 Upgrade Installation
- 2.3.1 Upgrade over Century Lan Analyzer(CLA) software
- 2.3.2 Upgrade over earlier version of Surveyor
- 3.0 NDIS Configuration Options
- 4.0 Example Files
- 5.0 Configuring the Startup Name Table
- 6.0 Problems Fixed in this Release
- 7.0 Known Problems
- 8.0 Helpful Hints
- 9.0 How to Contact Technical Support
-
- 1.0 Hardware Requirements & Software Compatibility
- ==================================================
- Minimum PC configuration:
- Microsoft Windows95 or
- Microsoft WindowsNT 4.0/SP 3 (with Administrative privileges)
- Pentium 100Mhz processor or higher.
- 32MB RAM Windows 95
- 32MB RAM Windows NT 4.0
- 800 x 600 Video SVGA display (or higher)
- NDIS enhanced 16/32 bit driver for 10/100 Ethernet Adapter Card and or
- NDIS 4/16 Token Ring adapter card
-
- Optional:
- - Century Media Module (CMM) 10/100 Ethernet Analyzer/Capture/Filter
- PC Module (ISA slot)
- - Explorer 10/100 Ethernet portable integrated network analysis
- and monitoring system
- - Century Tap and 12-Tap allow CMM Analyzers and Explorers
- to tap into 10/100 Ethernet full-duplex links
-
- Surveyor/Explorer Compatibility Matrix:
- This release is compatible with previous releases of
- Surveyor (2.1 and 2.2) and Explorer (1.1, 1.2, and 1.3).
-
- 2.0 Software Installation
- =========================
- Note: Do not use the Add/Remove Software program found in the
- Control Panel of Windows95 and WindowsNT 4.0 to install
- Surveyor. Follow the installation instructions described
- below for proper installation.
-
- Note: If CMM hardware analyzer modules are installed in your
- system, record the address setting of each module by
- viewing their jumper settings. After installation,
- Surveyor will need the Module addresses for proper
- startup.
-
- 2.1 Overview of Installation Process
- -Remove existing installations of Century LAN Analyzer
- -Install the Surveyor 1.0 Base module
-
- 2.2 New Surveyor 1.0 Installation:
-
- Insert Surveyor 1.0 CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive. From
- Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0, Click the Start button, choose Run,
- and type X:\setup <enter>, where X is your CD dirve. Default installation will
- install Surveyor files into the C:\Program Files\Shomiti\Surveyor directory.
- You can edit this destination directory during the installation
- process if you choose.
-
- 2.3 Upgrade Installation: (When Century LAN Analyzer (CLA) Ver 1.x
- OR earlier versions of Surveyor 2.x are already installed.)
-
- Note: UnInstallShield does not delete Surveyor's startup configuration
- file, Surveyor.ini file found in the Windows or Winnt directory.
- It is recommended that the Surveyor.ini file be renamed and
- the newer version of Surveyor, upon start up, will create a
- new default Surveyor.ini file.
-
- Note: Before Upgrade, move all USER created capture files (.cap),
- filter files (.cfg & .dfd), transmit files (.tsp),
- name files (.nam), and log files to a directory other than
- the installation directory. These files will be deleted
- during the Upgrade process if they reside in the target
- installation directory
-
- 2.3.1 Perform these operations if you are installing Surveyor
- 1.0 on a system which has a previous version of CLA (1.x)
- already installed on it. Simultaneous installations of
- Surveyor software and Century LAN Analyzer(CLA) software
- are not supported.
- - Run the "Century UnInstallShield" provided with the earlier
- version of installed CLA software.
- - Remove the "Shomiti NDIS 3.1 PKTDRVR" from the network folder
- of the control panel (No new Shomiti NDIS driver needs to be
- installed).
- - Delete Pktdrvr.vxd from the \Windows\System directory.
- - Install Surveyor 1.0 software as described above (section 2.2).
-
- 2.3.2 Perform these operations if you are installing Surveyor 1.0
- on a system which has a previous version of Surveyor:
- - Run the "Surveyor UnInstallShield" provided with the earlier
- version of Surveyor software. (see UnInstallShield notes)
- - Install Surveyor 1.0 software as described above.
-
- UninstallShiled Notes:
- The uninstallation program removes files that it had originally
- installed and were not modified. If any files are left over after the
- uninstallation process, you may still proceed with the upgrade process
- as described above.
-
- 3.0 NDIS Configuration Options
- ==============================
- Surveyor 1.0 supports up to four (4) Ethernet and/or Token Ring
- adapters. However, the default setting for Surveyor is for one (1)
- adapter. If you are using any other number of adapters you MUST
- manually edit the system file: c:\windows\surveyor.ini*. The file
- can be edited with a text editor such as Notepad. You will need
- to insert the following line into the c:\windows\surveyor.ini* file,
- just above the line that defines your Name Table default pathway.
-
- NoOfNdisModule=X
-
- Where the value X is the number of NDIS cards installed in your
- machine. You must set the value to Zero if you remove all of the
- adapters. If you had two NDIS cards installed it would look like
- this:
-
- NoOfNdisModule=2
- Name Table=c:\shomiti\surveyor\Surveyor.nam
-
- If you experience problems, delete any Dial Up adapters.
- Then, after you have successfully installed both NICs, you can
- add the Dial Up adapters.
-
- * the default directory on WindowsNT is c:\winnt
-
- 4.0 Example Files
- =================
- An example directory, Program Files\Shomiti\Surveyor\Examples, contains sample
- Capture Filter Definition (.cfd) files, Display Filter
- Definition (.dfd) files, Capture (.cap) files,
- Transmit Specification (.tsp) files, and Template (.cap) files.
-
- Note: (.tsp) files created with Surveyor are not backwards
- compatible with older versions of CLA software because
- of format changes.
-
- 5.0 Configuring the Startup Name Table
- ======================================
- The Name Table is a file that contains a list of discovered MAC
- and Network addresses found by Surveyor in real-time and/or
- during the capture and decode process. The default Name Table
- file is Surveyor.nam and is located in the Shomiti\Surveyor
- directory (if default installation paths were chosen).
- This file updates itself during monitoring but is not
- automatically saved.
-
- To save, click the NAM button found in both the Surveyor Main
- and Detail views, click Save, and choose the directory to save
- in and type a name for your new Name Table file...example,
- MyNetwork.nam.
-
- To make the above file, MyNetwork.nam, the default startup Name
- Table file, you will need to edit the Surveyor.ini file found
- in the Windows directory by following these instructions:
-
- 1. Locate the Surveyor.ini file in your Windows95 or WindowsNT
- directory
- 2. Double Click on the Surveyor.ini file to open
- 3. Search for this line "NameTable=C:\Program Files\Shomiti\Surveyor\Surveyor.nam"
- 4. Delete the "Surveyor.nam" text on that line
- 5. Replace text with the default name table file, for example
- MyNetwork.nam.
- 6. Save the Surveyor.ini file, exit your editor and start the
- Surveyor application.
-
- Note: Switching between Name Table files with Surveyor running
- can be accomplished by clicking on the "NAM" tool bar
- button and click "Open". Find the name table file you want
- and Click "OK". Surveyor will always start up with the
- Name Table file specified in the Surveyor.ini file.
-
- 6.0 Problems fixed in this release
- ===================================
-
- 1. NTP packets:
- A crash occurs when decoding bad NTP packets.
- Ref# 1760
-
- 2. Login Window:
- Incorrect tab sequence in login window.
- Ref# 1761
-
- 3. Export to *.CSV file:
- A crash may occur when trying to export any capture view to *.csv file
- format.
- Ref# 1624
-
-
- 7.0 Known Problems
- ==================
-
- 1. Packet edit:
- Inserting multiple frames before the first frame which has a long delta
- time may produce a negative delta time stamp for those frames.
- Ref# 1478
-
-
- 8.0 Helpful Hints
- ===============
-
- 1. Adapter Cards\Token Ring:
- Madge PCMCIA adapter does not install properly with OSR2
- (OEM release 2) of Windows95. Specifically it does not work with
- NDIS.VXD driver, date 8/24/1996, size 16,301. It does however
- install properly with previous NDIS.VXD driver. If you have
- installed the OSR2 version of Windows95, locate and copy the
- older NDIS.VXD driver to windows\system directory.
-
- 2. Remote\Dial-Up Networking:
- Before Remote Dial-Up, remove all IP address bindings to all NDIS
- adapters except the IP address binding to the Dial-Up Adapter on
- local PC. IP address bindings are done through Windows95 & NT's
- Network folder found in the Control Panel.
-
- 3. Remote\Dial-Up Networking:
- After Remote Dial-Up, remove the IP address binding to the Dial-
- Up Network adapter on local PC. This is done through the Network
- folder of the Control Panel in both Windows95 and WindowsNT.
- A reboot is necessary.
-
- 4. Startup Crash:
- At least one protocol must be assigned to a NDIS module that Surveyor
- may access as a Resource. Failure to assign a protocol to the NDIS
- module will cause a "Blue screen" crash during startup. Check the
- Network folder in the Control panel and verify that each NDIS adapter
- under "Bindings" has a protocol assigned before starting Surveyor.
-
-
- 5. Viewing Capture files and applying filters:
- Caution must be taken when saving filtered versions of capture files.
- If you create and apply a display filter to a capture that does not
- match anything, you will end up with an empty capture. Do NOT save
- the empty capture file. To return to the original valid capture file
- (to which the failed display filter was applied), bring up the filter
- by clicking on the "Create/Modify Display Filter" button in the Detail
- View toolbar. Turn off the filter by clicking on the "OFF" button in
- the toolbar. Reactivate the Surveyor Capture View window by clicking
- on top of its window. Now from the Detail View toolbar use the pulldown
- menu for File, and click on Refresh. This will cause the Surveyor
- Capture View window to Refresh and display the original capture file
- (unfiltered).
-
- 6. NDIS buffer sizing:
- NDIS buffer size changes should only occur on the LOCAL system. Do not
- change the buffer size of a REMOTE NDIS interface.
-
- 7. Packet Slicing:
- Changing the Packet Slicing while a module is armed will affect the
- Elapsed Time in the Packet Statistics view. Stop the module before
- changing the Packet Slicing value.
-
- 8. CMM 1&2 Monitoring & Mode configuration:
- The Century Media Module 1&2 cannot be set to Monitoring mode only.
- The mode choices for HDX are Capture, CAP+MON, or Transmit.
- The mode choices for FDX (CMM2 only) are CAP+TX.
- The user must manually set the CMM2 module to CAP+TX for proper
- FDX operation. At the end of FDX the user must manually unset CAP+TX
- mode. There are no performance degradation when setting modules to
- CAP+MON mode.
-
- 9. NDIS Module:
- Shomiti's NDIS module will be attached to the interface card's driver
- (NDIS.VXD). However, other services, such as TCP/IP, IPX, NetBIOS, etc.,
- might also be attached to this driver. These other services will capture
- frames directed to the interface cards MAC address and to the Broadcast
- address. The NDIS module will be able to capture all addresses when the
- module is armed for receive. Under heavy BROADCAST traffic the PC can
- lock up because these other services are present. It is recommended that
- these services are removed from the interface card if the user is
- experimenting with a traffic generator generating streams of BROADCAST
- on the same segment as this given PC.
-
- 10. Module lock:
- Use module\lock to lock out access to a local or remote module in use.
- If you disconnect from a remote module you have locked, that module will
- automatically be unlocked.
-
- 11. Sniffer Conversion:
- Surveyor does not convert compressed (.enc) sniffer files to Shomiti's
- (.cap) files.
-
- 12. Operation:
- If packets are edited in the Capture View, use only the Save Icon button
- "within" the Capture View window to save the changes. Using the Save
- Icon button in the Detail View window in which the Capture View resides
- will result in a loss of those changes. Use the Save button in the
- window with which you are working.
-
-
-
- 9.0 How to Contact Technical Support
- ====================================
- Shomiti Systems Inc.
- 1800 Bering Drive
- San Jose, CA 95112
-
- 888-SHOMITI (888) 746-6484 (Continental U.S. and Canada)
-
- Direct Phone Number to Tech Support.....408 437-4059
- Main Phone Number.......................408 437-3940
- Fax Number..............................408 437-4041
- Support Email...........................support@shomiti.com
- Web Site................................http://www.shomiti.com
-