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Subject: Re: dos sniffers?
From: peter @ nmti . com (Peter da Silva)
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 10:53:39 -0600 (CST)
To: dwl @ hnc . com (David Loysen)
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <199602222050 . MAA08463 @ spike . hnc . com> from "David Loysen" at Feb 22, 96 12:52:29 pm

> >I have a LanAlyzer, but it doesn't understand IP addresses

I have a Lanalyzer and it understands IP addresses just fine.

> Lanalyzer understands ip in that it can decode it. Once you decode it you
> can sometimes read the host name from the packet, depends on what was sent,
> ugly but better than nothing. Big Red decided not to supply any ip - host
> name translation since netware does ipx and it's only you funny unix guys
> that talk ip.

Damn, they gutted it! I'm glad I've got an older Lanalyzer that handles
IP. You might want to check if they have a TCP/IP module for extra cost...

(Novell bought Excelan purely so they could get the Lanalyzer. At that time
 it was almost purely IP oriented!)


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