Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Expert mode

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From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 02:32:43 +0900
Hi,

At 03:16 PM 7/17/00 +0100, John Bourke wrote:
>Hello again !
>
>Has anyone considered an expert mode, for spotting network anomolies, such
>as excessive retransmissions ?

Again, I think that this is not a job for Ethereal, but is a job for
another tool that understands the structure of the protocols involved.  It
would sort through the data and apply some heuristics to spot anomalies.

Such a tool, and Ethereal, would be helped if there was an underlying
library that knew how to decode packets, so each higher level tool could
concentrate on its own job. In the case of Ethereal, that job is to display
the decoded packets.

>john
>
>

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx
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