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Re: IP datagram analyzer



Ethereal is excellent, its decodes are often better than those with comercial 
products such as Sniffer Pro in that they get updated quicker as new 
standards emerge. It can import file from most of the other network analyzers 
too. The VOIP decodes in Ethereal are absolutely brilliant. The only thing 
about it that you may miss is that it doesnt provode all the fancy graphing 
and base lining functions that the comercial products do, its just a packet 
decoder (but a hell of a good one). You can get a version that runs on 
Windows too allthough it seems a lot slower on Windows the Linux.

Pat 


On Thursday 19 September 2002 5:01 pm, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 11:57:23AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote:
> > I'm new to Debian and only a 1 yr vet of Linux, but 100% in the Penguin
> > camp now, and looking for a GUI type of program that does IP datagram
> > analyzing.  Can anyone make any suggestions?  The equivalent that ran on
> > Windows was Shomiti, which let you look at a datagram broken down by
> > words and bits.
>
> You want tcpdump and ethereal.  ethereal is in many ways a GUI frontend
> to tcpdump, but it's more than that.  Play around with it a bit.
>
> noah

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