On 01/29/10 10:24 AM, Andras Spitzer wrote:
James,
I know many other solutions how to decode the CDP packets (even tcpdump can
decode it, or there are tools
written only for this task like cdpr), and I agree wireshark is a decent packet
analyzer. The reason I was
asking specifically snoop is that it's part of Solaris, and many cases it's
not that trivial to install
(especially tools which requires root privileges) new/3rd party software on a
production system.
Wireshark (including tshark) is included in the OpenSolaris package
repo, and tcpdump is also there as well. There is hopefully little need
to add any additional 3rd party tools for packet capture.
Anyway, as you wrote snoop is moribund, are there any plans to replace the
default packet analyzer in Solaris?
Snoop is being phased out in favor of Wireshark, but there are no
concrete plans to remove support for snoop. At this point, we're
including both with a focus on moving users over to Wireshark.
-Seb
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