> Once again thanks to everyone who responded - ethereal support is
> wonderful, especially when compared to Cinco Networks after their acquisition
> by NAI ... price goes up and the voice mail box I left unanswered questions
> in changed every few weeks.
On the topic of NetXRay and Network Associates, the page at
http://www.ehsco.com/opinion/19981227.html
says:
The Best (and Worst) of 1998
1997 was a banner year for the networking industry, bringing a
hoard of new technologies and products to the newly-networked
masses. 1998 was the morning after, with most of us trying to
make 1997's technology work, while vendors pushed out follow-on
products that tried to get closer to the original promise.
Sometimes the fixes worked, with some products and technologies
permanently altering the landscape, while others just proved
that some technologies weren't really such great ideas in the
first place.
Here then is my short list of the winners and losers for
1998.
...
The Losers
...
NetXRay
Last year, I said that NetXRay 3.0 was one of the best products
released in 1997. Cinco took a great core technology and made
it easy-to-use and affordable, expanding the network monitoring
market at the expense of the high-end players. Things looked
great for us. Boy was I wrong. Network Associates has since
*quadrupled the price*, totally alienating the entry-level market
that Cinco had built. When that didn't kill the product, they
went ahead and broke it, removing some of the very functionality
that made it awesome to begin with (like free application-level
decodes and real-time monitoring). What a bunch of dorks. Now
I tell people to get Shomiti's Surveyor, a bitching decoder
that's a fraction of the cost, or Ethereal, a free (but
feature-poor) decoder for Linux.
...
