Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] About SNMP

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 07:56:09 -0800
tony Hoffman wrote:

As a interested customer of your software,and I recently
downloaded your product,and I would
like to know if your software supports to collect
information using SNMP?

No - it's a protocol analyzer, for capturing raw network traffic, looking at the details of packets, and calculating some statistics on the traffic.

You probably want something such as NetView:

	http://www-306.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/netview/

or some application based on, for example, Net-SNMP:

	http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/

Dear Tony~

Your sales account manager will best be able to answer your questions. To be able to determine who your sales representative is please reply with the following information:

	...

Once I have this information I will be able to provide you the contact information for your Network General Sales rep to assist you with your inquiry.

Thank you,

Jeremy Nix
***Network General*
Customer Service
1-800-SNIFFER

Sniffer's also a protocol analyzer; as far as I know, it doesn't collect SNMP data either.