Hello, everyone. :-)
You know I don't enjoy interrupting your regular scheduled program,
but as has happened before, I feel that ethereal-dev is the best
audience for my message.
You might already know that in the last month I retook development of
EtherApe, and I've been working almost full time to try to fix old bugs
and add much requested features, like recognizing SMB and displaying
NetBIOS names, RPC, NFS; token ring and loopback support, and better
FDDI; more control from within the GUI like choosing capture file,
interface or display mode, and keeping more statistics.
Then I've also been giving it all the finishing touches, like proper
integration in Gnome and Debian, icons, and (yet to be truly informative)
online documentation or making sure it doesn't leak memory.
This is all because I'd like to release a 1.0 release in a month or
two. And because of this, I feel it would be nice if the right people
gave it a look and told me what they believe is still missing for them
to think of it as a truly useful program.
Much better yet would be if those people with special needs gave it a try
at adding themselves support for other protocols or names not yet
in the program. And believe me this is almost a trivial task, particularly
compared to Ethereal. And you would probably not feel too lost, either,
since most of the dissecting structure and code I stol^H^H^H^H borrowed
from Ethereal. :-)
All in all, I want to take the chance again to say thank you to
everybody who has helped developed Ethereal. It just made my job so
much simpler... some would even say non-existant :-). It really
is a wonderful learning tool, both the program itself and the
source code.
Looking forward to hear from your comments.
Kind regards,
Juan.
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EtherApe, a graphical network monitor modeled after etherman
http://etherape.sourceforge.net/
