Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] RE: What features does DS have that Ethereal lacks ..
The specific feature that DS provides versus other versions of Sniffer
is a distributed control mechanism. Essentially an "Agent" is loaded
onto a series of, usually rackmounted, probes. These agents can be
remotely controlled using Sniffer's console software, which provides
the normal Sniffer pretty front-end. The agent pushes host list,
packet data (while browsing a packet list), status and statistical data
back to the console.
Otherwise it's essentially a less-well-maintained instance of Sniffer
Pro, and has its same advantages (hugely better interface speed when
performing actions and somewhat intuitive interface, mostly) and
disadvantages (terrible expert module, mediocre decodes, data
pattern/offset filtering, etc).
Ian
On Oct 7, 2003, at 8:49 PM, Eichert, Diana wrote:
Richard
I'm on the way out the door for the day. I'll reply with more
detail tomorrow. However for immediacy "expert" mode gives you
annotated comment like "too many retries", "late replies", ...
etc. Pretty graphics with conversation pairs functionality
that etherape tries to duplicate.
I'm not running the latest version of Ethereal here, it's a
least a version from some time in the spring, so it's possible
the developers have added some graphical representations
capabilities that I'm not aware of. I seem to recall some
traffic here about that.
diana
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Sharpe [mailto:rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 6:22 PM
To: Eichert, Diana
Cc: ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: What features does DS have that Ethereal lacks ..
Thanks for the reply to the original question.
What features does DS have that Ethereal lacks?
Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org,
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com
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