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Subject: RE: PC-Windows based Sniffer
From: "W.C. Epperson" <epperson @ vak12ed . edu>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 14:06:04 EDT
To: firewalls @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <c=US%a=_%p=XLConnect%l=IBM2-960924155034Z-4509 @ hp3 . xlconnect . com>; from "Osterwald, Paul" at Sep 24, 96 11:50 am
Reply-to: epperson @ vak12ed . edu

Paul sed:
> 
> One thing about the Novell product that is important to point out.  It
> does not specifically require NetWare or a server, merely the lower
> level ODI drivers to initialize the protocol stacks.  
> 
> They are currently in version 2.2 and I believe have just released a
> patch which will sniff more of the application protocols which were not
> included in the base TCP/IP stuff.
> 
Is this the LANalyzer product based on a special co-processor NIC?  Latest
version I looked at the real-time displays showed MAC only, not IP addresses,
although it filtered on IP for capture and decoded IP in the captured
packets on review.

Of course, my DOS-based copy has v3.11 on both the documentation
copyright page and the startup messages.  Since Novell denies the
existence of this version, it may be a clever forgery by M$....
--
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Information Security Officer             --Edgar Allan Poe--
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