Sniffer Opinions?

["Ames, Neil" <NAmes () anteon com>]

Sniffer gurus,
        I am about to buy a protocol analyzer.  I was very impressed with a
brief eval of eEye's "Iris" scanner.  Anyone have in-depth experience with
it with a strong opinion?  I barely got a chance to evaluate it and am still
amazed by how much easier it is to use than some other products.  It seems
infinitely more intuituve and polished than Sniffer Pro 4.5 and Ethereal.
Anyone worked on the WildPackets Etherpeek or NX scanner?  I am downloading
an eval now, but a brief eval isn't like months of relying on in in spot
situations.  I want a product that will let me identify many protocols,
group conversations easily, and provide decent reporting, on Ethernet.  I
don't know that I can't live without live decoding, but it seems very useful
(and cool).  I *don't* want a product that requires me to read the manual if
I haven't used it in a month.


Thank you,

Fritz

Neil F. "Fritz" Ames
Sr. Computer Systems Analyst
Anteon Corporation
3211 Jermantown Rd.
JLWI / Room 541
Fairfax, VA 22030
Tel (703) 246-0634
names () anteon com

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