On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Ben Nagy wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul D. Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 29 November 2000 11:30
> > To: Ben Nagy
> > Cc: firewalls_list
> > Subject: RE: Protocol Analyzer recommendations
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> > On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Ben Nagy wrote:
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> > > I'll second that. Ethereal gets better with every version.
> > I previously used
> > > Sniffer Pro (which I still think is probably the best
> > commercial product)
> > > but ethereal has some nice conversation interface tracking
> > stuff which is
> > > better than Sniffer and the advanced grepping stuff is great.
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> > What's the longest capture session you've had with Ethereal?
> > Last time I
> > played with it, I couldn't get it to stay alive for a full
> > 24-hour period
> > on a busy network, and I didn't have time to diagnose it.
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> Good question - I've never had an occasion to use a sniffer for that long.
> The longest I've had have been 10-30 minutes - usually only to test a
> hypothesis I'd already derived for some set of behaviour.
etheral, while a sweet little gui tool, produces HUGE logs in even short
time spans like Ben mentions. Far larger then good ole tcpdump fer sure.
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
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