On 12/22/06, Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Today I saw a blog post about a wireshark alternative called networtnightvision that claims to be more secure than wireshark. I'm very interested in this because wireshark is just too dangerous to run, IMO. Anyways, the sniffer is written in dylan. I have never heard of dylan before. Here is a snippet from a paper [0] which the author claims:
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Is this for real? I figured if anyone could shed some light on this, an OpenBSD developer might be able to comment on this "dylan" language. I'm not looking to learn dylan, but am just wondering if this is legit. I wouldn't mind running one of these tools if they are indeed "safer" to run than wireshark. (yes i use tcpdump regularly)
The CCC also had some features on the use of Dylan and its role in the design of a new network analysis framework. Some other things they mention in relation are the implementation of a userland TCP/iP stack and the challenge to keep performance reasonable (a noble goal considering the rising link speeds we need to analyze). At that time networknightvision is referred to as PoC only. It's reported to have a fraction of the features of Ethereal and Dylan's resulting compiled code is reported to be "a little slower than Perl." To me it sounds like something that is in a bit of an infancy. DS
