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RE: Distributed sniffer products
From: "Braun, Mike" <MBraun () firstam com>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 13:32:24 -0700
We've been playing with Wildpackets http://www.wildpackets.com/. They sniff LAN to Gig and some WAN as well. The Distributed model is still vaporware, but is said to be out soon. The expert analysis is comparable if not better than NAI. Mike Braun -----Original Message----- From: Brennan_Murphy () NAI com [mailto:Brennan_Murphy () NAI com] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 1:02 PM To: owen () delong com; JAustad () temgweb com; nanog () merit edu Subject: RE: Distributed sniffer products The cost benefit analysis on Ethereal/etc vs Sniffer on anything but the smallest of networks is usually very easy to make. The fundamental issue is what questions do you have and should you have about your network and what tool answers those questions efficiently and reliably. Good protocol analyzers sell because they save time in answering important questions. Sniffer recently released a SMB Sniffer called Netasyst...worth a look if cost has been an issue in the past. So ends this biased response. :-) -----Original Message----- From: Owen DeLong [mailto:owen () delong com] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 2:50 PM To: Austad, Jay; 'nanog () merit edu' Subject: Re: Distributed sniffer products Etherial and other libpcap tools work reasonably well, can be easily deployed using commodity hardware, and would cost you a lot less than NetAssoc. Owen --On Wednesday, September 3, 2003 1:07 PM -0500 "Austad, Jay" <JAustad () temgweb com> wrote:
Anyone have any experience with these? I'm looking for something similar to Network Associates Sniffer product. Are there any open source projects that are decent? What are others using? ---------------- Jay Austad Senior Network Analyst Travelers Express / MoneyGram e: jaustad () temgweb com p: 952.591.3779
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