A lot of posts are coming up on sniffing. Just curious, if these folks could also pour out their intentions with the sniffing tool, perhaps the wiser/learned/experienced/academecians may be able to give direction to their thought. Sniffer can be used to test Layer 1 - Layer 7. I use it a lot for Layer 2 , Layer 4 only. I couldnt care what layer 3 is doing becoz I " health check" with layer 4. The best Sniffing tool on this earth today is from RADCOM. Man cant afford it even if man had money. In the country with largest population called India , we have only 1 of that tool. RADCOM today has only 70 employees the world over. The free sniffing tool also sniffs enough to let a network admin troubleshoot most of the network issues and plan on fine tuning. Ha...mark the word " fine tune" Is that th intention ? What is the intention? Is it academic pursuit to learn network monitoring ? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 15:13:27 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: sniffer Do you knnw of a good home sniffer that is not going to break the bank, that would work well to learn from and to do small network analyzing... Brian _________________________________ FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________________________ Visit http://www.visto.com/info, your free web-based communications center. Visto.com. Life on the Dot. _________________________________ FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]