Kenneth Schalk wrote:
> 
> > Sun's snoop, I suspect, recognizes all packets with particular values at
> > particular offsets as ONC RPC packets, and dissects them as particular
> > RPC protocols based on the program number in the request or, for
> > replies, the program number in the request that matches the reply.
> 
> > Ethereal does that as well; it should run on Alpha Linux (and Digital
> > UNIX):
> 
> >       http://www.ethereal.com/
> 
> > (it's free software; it's "ethereal.com" only because "ethereal.org" was
> > already taken).
> 
> I was using Ethereal for a bit, but it got quite tedious with the problem I'm
> working on.  I'm comparing two streams of NFS traffic for differences which
> could explain why a program works in one case and fails in another (when their
> environment and all files involved are identical).  (It looks like some quirk
> of the Linux NFS client implementation and/or a bug in the custom NFS server.)
>  It's been much less labor intesive to diff Perl-filtered tcpdump output.

Have you tried using "tethereal -V"?

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