Re: [PCTECH] Ethereal -- network protocol analyzer

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, David, have you looked at the TCP/IP packets on an iSeries comm trace 
report? It parses all the fields of the packet, as well as showing the raw 
data. Granted, it would only be between the iSeries and whatever is 
connected to it, but that's the same for any sniffer, unless you put one at 
a common connection to all hosts, I suppose.

At 10:59 AM 3/21/2004 -0600, you wrote:
> Folks:
>
> Joe Pluta was recently looking for a ethernet protocol analyzer ... I had 
> heard about Ethereal, which was an open source product for analyzing 
> network traffic.
>
> I just downloaded the latest version of this and am very impressed ... 
> It's got some very advanced features that I really don't understand 
> (although I'm sure a network tech would) ... but it does have something 
> that I think would be of use to just about anyone who is trying to work 
> with TCP/IP programming (on or off the iSeries).  It's a feature that lets 
> you choose a packet and the FOLLOW the stream completely.
>
> So, if you've ever wanted to figure out exactly what information is being 
> exchanged between a client and server, this is a very useful tool.
>
> Being open source, you can't beat the price ... and you know it's 
> constantly being updated.
>
> More information can be found at http://www.ethereal.com
>
> It's available for various *nix flavors and Windows (Windows version 
> requires the installation of a packet capture library ... WinPCap ... also 
> open source).
>
> This software has just become a standard part of my toolbox.
>
> david
>
>
>
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