From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Nov 29 16:48:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au [202.14.186.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A04737B401 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:48:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA12715; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:46:09 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from anwsmh@IPAustralia.Gov.AU) Received: from wf-158.aipo.gov.au(192.168.1.158) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au via smap (V2.0) id xma012703; Thu, 30 Nov 00 11:45:39 +1100 Received: from localhost (anwsmh@localhost) by stan.aipo.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA00370; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:47:41 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from anwsmh@IPAustralia.Gov.AU) X-Authentication-Warning: stan.aipo.gov.au: anwsmh owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:47:40 +1100 (EST) From: Stanley Hopcroft X-Sender: anwsmh@stan.aipo.gov.au To: Rowan Crowe Cc: FreeBSD-ISP@FreeBSD.oRG Subject: Re: tcpdump & user-ppp/tunX. Ethereal ? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dear Sir, I am writing to say that ethereal (http://www.zing.org aka http://www.ethereal.com/) is a very nice seven layer packet decoder that may be suitable if you need nasty link layer stuff. There is a FreeBSD port of it, and while for my moneys worth, tcpdump with ASCII decode patches (he he), is by far and way more convenient than a relatively sluggish X application, Ethereal decodes almost every protocol and his dog. The SMB decode (courtesy Richard Sharp of the Samba team) is particuarly good. We have an HP Internet advisor; the Ethereal decode is *much* better. Thank you. Yours sincerely, S Hopcroft Network Specialist IP Australia +61 2 6283 3189 +61 2 6281 1353 FAX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message