From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Nov 27 23:17:56 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 4B1E737B400 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 23:17:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA48829; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:17:15 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from anwsmh@IPAustralia.Gov.AU) Received: from disc-4-161.aipo.gov.au(10.0.4.161) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au via smap (V2.0) id xma048826; Tue, 28 Nov 00 18:17:01 +1100 Received: from localhost (anwsmh@localhost) by stan.aipo.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA07327; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:17:01 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from anwsmh@IPAustralia.Gov.AU) X-Authentication-Warning: stan.aipo.gov.au: anwsmh owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:17:00 +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 ? In-Reply-To: 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