Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Checking out Sniffer ...
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, HOOD, Andy wrote:
> Strange, I didn't know SNA was obsolete. And here I am running SNA on Token
> Ring.
Today, at Connectathon, I heard an IBM guy talk about another obsolete
protocol: SMB. He also discussed implementing it over SCTP.
> 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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Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxx, rsharpe@xxxxxxxxx,
sharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
