On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:16:58 -0500, Paul Wernau <[email protected]> wrote: >> The only thing blocking the removal of snoop in the past has been the >> lack of wireshark/tshark integration as a replacement. Has that finally >> been fixed? If so, then just do it. >> > > snoop is embedded in scripts everywhere, both inside and outside Sun. > Examples, how-tos, etc. all over the Internet use snoop. There is a lot > of investment out there in custom filters, etc. Cavalierly ripping it > out would be a disaster. It needs a transition plan, similar to > nslookup -> dig. Maybe make it deprecated for some good, long time. > It's just too much a part of the Solaris infrastructure to treat as an > interchangeable "out with the old, in with the new" tool. > > It's fair to say, no new features, snoop not supported for this, that, > use wireshark. But to rip out this tool before people have had a time > to transition is going to cause backlash. After all, wireshark hasn't > been "standard" in OpenSolaris distributions for all that long, has it? > > (This message written 14 seconds after dealing with a terrible > deficiency in snoop, btw :) )
+1 for keeping snoop. snoop presents a minimal quick and dirty method of inspecting packets; this has been invaluable during network driver development over a serial console. Regards, Steve _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
