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Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 17:41:43 +0100
From: Roger Hardiman <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Ethereal is great
Gerald
> Thanks! Would it be OK to forward this to the etherel-dev list?
Sure. Actually, could you forward this email instead.
I've added a bit more details.
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Hi,
Just a note to say thanks for the ethereal program.
We were having network loading problems on our campus network,
and by setting up ethereal on a FreeBSD machine (with our
sysadmin's permission), we were able to trace the problem.
So, thanks for a great program.
Extra information. We had a P90 machine with 16 Meg of RAM and
Mono EGA monitor collecting dust.
I installed FreeBSD 3.3 and ethereal 0.7.5 from the FreeBSD Ports
Collection.
I added 2 network cards, both ISA NE2000 type cards from SMC.
One network card went to the campus network.
The other went to our lab subnet. (isolated from the main network
via a router)
As there was only an EGA monitor, we ran ethereal using a
remote X session to another FreeBSD machine in the lab lan.
Having 2 network cards meant we could log the campus network
without logging our own remote X session packets.
So, thanks again for a great program.
Roger
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