On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Sameer R. Manek wrote:
> Sniffers have both legitimate and illegitimate uses. They are often really
> useful for debugging "network problems", so us systems folks can prove the
> network folks are wrong, and vice versa.
>
> tcpdump, trafshow, are both really handy. Someone recommended ethereal but I
> haven't had a chance to check it out yet.
I highly recommend it as well.
Ethereal understands routing packets.
It has saved by butt on numerous occasions.
It runs under X, so you have to have those libraries on the machine. (I
try and remove X libraries for systems outside the firewall. But that is
just me...)
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