I use Ethereal and I love it. It's fairly stable (crashes every now and then) but overall it's one of the best i've seen out there. It has a good setup for filters, breaks up the packets for you in humna readable form, and highlights the cooresponding data in the actual packet. It also gives you the option to view the traffic in real time or capture (and then export to a file). Haven't played with sniffit though. Ricky -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 5:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [brluglist] recommend a good sniffer? <p>I want to play with a network packet sniffer for the first time and I was wondering if anybody had some previous experience or recommendations. The two I've heard of are sniffit and Ethereal. Ethereal has a number of dependencies :P and sniffit seems to be pretty much self contained, so I'm thinking of trying sniffit first. Um, Dustin, does Vedalabs have a policy on packet sniffing? :) John Hebert __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================ ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================ <!-- body="end" --> <hr noshade> <ul> <li><strong>Next message:</strong> Mark Orr: "RE: [brluglist] recommend a good sniffer?" <li><strong>Previous message:</strong> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: "[brluglist] recommend a good sniffer?" <li><strong>In reply to:</strong> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: "[brluglist] recommend a good sniffer?" <li><strong>Next in thread:</strong> Mark Orr: "RE: [brluglist] recommend a good sniffer?" <li><strong>Messages sorted by:</strong> [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ] </ul> <hr noshade>
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