I have uses ethereal for several days (a Weekend with a filter) but I am running it on
Windows NT not Linux.
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To: 'Paul D. Robertson'
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Subject: RE: Protocol Analyzer recommendations
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> From: Paul D. Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, 29 November 2000 11:30
> To: Ben Nagy
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> Subject: RE: Protocol Analyzer recommendations
>
>
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Ben Nagy wrote:
>
> > I'll second that. Ethereal gets better with every version.
> I previously used
> > Sniffer Pro (which I still think is probably the best
> commercial product)
> > but ethereal has some nice conversation interface tracking
> stuff which is
> > better than Sniffer and the advanced grepping stuff is great.
>
> What's the longest capture session you've had with Ethereal?
> Last time I
> played with it, I couldn't get it to stay alive for a full
> 24-hour period
> on a busy network, and I didn't have time to diagnose it.
Good question - I've never had an occasion to use a sniffer for that long.
The longest I've had have been 10-30 minutes - usually only to test a
hypothesis I'd already derived for some set of behaviour.
Sorry!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
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