Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Checking out Sniffer ...

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From: "HOOD, Andy" <ahood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 16:14:24 +1100
Strange, I didn't know SNA was obsolete. And here I am running SNA on Token
Ring.

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't
even know existed can render your own computer unusable. -- Leslie Lamport,
as quoted in CACM, June 1992


-----Original Message-----
From:	Richard Sharpe [mailto:rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent:	Wednesday, 6 March 2002 16:01
To:	Gerald Combs
Cc:	ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:	Re: [Ethereal-dev] Checking out Sniffer ...

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Gerald Combs wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> 
> > At Connectathon, the Sniffer guys seem to think they have the best
sniffer 
> > on the planet. The 'largest number of decoders' was mentioned.
> 
> ...but do they have the 'largest number of dissectors'?  :)

It is hard to say, since they do not seem to have SCTP and some others, 
but do seem to have Mobile IP etc ...  They have lots of obsolete 
protocols, it seems, like SNA stuff, etc.

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