> The only thing blocking the removal of snoop in the past has been the > lack of wireshark/tshark integration as a replacement. Has that finally > been fixed? If so, then just do it. >
snoop is embedded in scripts everywhere, both inside and outside Sun. Examples, how-tos, etc. all over the Internet use snoop. There is a lot of investment out there in custom filters, etc. Cavalierly ripping it out would be a disaster. It needs a transition plan, similar to nslookup -> dig. Maybe make it deprecated for some good, long time. It's just too much a part of the Solaris infrastructure to treat as an interchangeable "out with the old, in with the new" tool. It's fair to say, no new features, snoop not supported for this, that, use wireshark. But to rip out this tool before people have had a time to transition is going to cause backlash. After all, wireshark hasn't been "standard" in OpenSolaris distributions for all that long, has it? (This message written 14 seconds after dealing with a terrible deficiency in snoop, btw :) ) -Paul _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
