Brian Utterback writes: > Of course if we stay up to date, the hope would be that any new protocols > will already be supported in wireshark. If not, then that same person that > would have updated snoop will need to update wireshark.
... and that leads directly to my concern. The only commitment there is here is to deliver what happens to be in the open source. Thus, we're stuck in a very strange place. We end up with a situation where we deliver a nice new tool that works much better than the old one (and one that many of us in networking in fact have used for years), but the ARC will continue to advise new project teams to enhance the moribund snoop tool for each new protocol, because that's the "official" tool that Sun is supporting. We're not just wasting effort, but, as this proposal isn't aligned with snoop or the networking group itself, we're actually marching in the opposite direction. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
