From: Sheahan, John (John.Sheahan@priceline.com)
Date: Wed Sep 08 2004 - 11:14:18 GMT-3
We have evaluated several over the years and prefer a product that has an "expert" as does the SnifferPro product. The "expert" is built in software that examines the traffic and is intuitive enough to point out problems on it's own such as duplicate IP addresses on the network, retransmissions, delayed ACK's etc. In my opinion, this is the key feature you need and separates the good sniffer products from the not so good.
I know that SnifferPro and the Sniffer DSS both have the expert built in. We also use NGenius probes on the network that can capture at any time and they do the job but have no expert. You are however, able to export the sniffer trace from an NGenius probe (or most any other sniffer product)into the expert in SnifferPro for a better analysis.
Etherpeak also has an expert and is a viable option for less money. We already had several licenses for SnifferPro or we might have switched over to the WildPackets product (Etherpeak).
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From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
Minihane Kevin-kminih01
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 9:01 AM
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Subject: OT: recommendations for commercial sniffer program
Hi all
Apologies for the OT. Was just looking for peoples opinions on the various commercial sniffer programs available. (Etherpeek, SnifferPro, etc)
Does anyone have any recommendations, etc?
Thanks
Kevin
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