Ethereal-dev: [ethereal-dev] Random raw thoughts, automatic problem diagnosis

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From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 14:11:40 +1000
Hi,

having just helped someone diagnose slow browsing problems on a Win 98
machine (looks like someone had a bad translation of NetBIOS name to IP
address, which meant that ARP was failing to turn up the machine, and the
Win98 box failed over to IPX, which possibly caused long browsing times),
the following struck me.

With a packed decode engine that is decoupled from display, a la dencode as
I proposed some time ago, and have made some progress on, one could build a
simple expert system that could do some automatic fault diagnosis by
looking for patterns of packets etc ...

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx, Master Linux Administrator :-),
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
Co-author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author: First Australian 5-day, intensive, hands-on Linux SysAdmin course