[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       gauntlet-user
Subject:    RE: A good sniffer/Lan analyzer
From:       "Shivdasani, Meenoo" <Meenoo_Shivdasani () nai ! com>
Date:       1998-08-27 17:16:55
[Download RAW message or body]

Yeah....it's SnifferPro/NetXRay.  I alluded to the fact that it was an NAI
product in the last message I sent...

M

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shefcheck, Michael [mailto:michael.shefcheck@wang.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 1998 12:56 PM
> To: meenoo_shivdasani@nai.com
> Subject: RE: A good sniffer/Lan analyzer
> 
> 
> Meenoo,
> 
> Doesn't Network Associates have some kind of sniffer?
> 
> > ----------
> > From: 	Shivdasani, Meenoo[SMTP:Meenoo_Shivdasani@nai.com]
> > Reply To: 	gauntlet-user@rmsbus.com
> > Sent: 	Thursday, August 27, 1998 10:46 AM
> > To: 	michael.shefcheck@wang.com
> > Subject: 	RE: A good sniffer/Lan analyzer
> > 
> > 
> > I don't have any data on Network Flight Recorder, but I 
> hear there are
> > some
> > good people working there so it ought to be a good product.
> > 
> > I've used the combination of Sniffer Pro and NetXRay with good
> > results.  I'm
> > still a fan of tcpdump, but NetXRay does a nice job of interpreting
> > the
> > packets and making them more readable to a normal human.  
> Of course, I
> > only
> > started using them when TIS was acquired.  :)
> > 
> > M
> > 
> > > 
> > > I believe many of you have run into this same situation many 
> > > times:  You
> > > are asked to install a firewall into an existing network 
> between two
> > > routers and no one can tell you what kind of traffic, from 
> > > where to where
> > > and on what port numbers, that are going through that link.  
> > > Using TCPDUMP
> > > can show you, in real time, what the traffics are.  But if 
> > > there are a lot
> > > of traffics, it is really hard to have a higher view of 
> > > what's going on.
> > > Same as sniffers.  I wonder if there is a tool which you run 
> > > on a laptop so
> > > you can carry it with you that combines the capabilities of a 
> > > sniffer plus
> > > it saves all the data on harddisk so you can just leave it 
> > > running for few
> > > days and run reports against the collected information.  
> > > People told me NFR
> > > (Network Flight Recorder) does exactly what I am looking for. 
> > >  I 'd like to
> > > know your experience with NFR, or any other good tools you 
> > > know of.  Thanks
> > > in advance.
> > > 
> > > Steve Kuo
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> 

[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]