> Mine's v3.11A. When I inquired about upgrades, Novell disavowed any
> knowledge of it, although it prints Novell copyright statements. It
> understands IP only in a brain-dead sort of way: it direct maps MAC
> to IP on the current segment. Unless all the traffic you're analyzing
> originates on the same subnet, this creates the bizarre appearance that
> much of it originated at the last router hop. You can decode the
> packets and read the IP addresses yourself, but IMNSHO that should be
> serviced by the software directly.
Ah! Light dawns! OK, that may be the case. I haven't been in a position
where I wanted to use it to analyze WAN traffic. After all, it *is* a "LAN"
analyzer. OK, OK, that's quibbling, but it hadn't occurred to me to try
using it beyond the subnet. Good point.
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