Distributed sniffer products

Wed Sep 3 20:01:52 UTC 2003

The cost benefit analysis on Ethereal/etc vs Sniffer on anything
but the smallest of networks is usually very easy to make.
The fundamental issue is what questions do you have and 
should you have about your network and what tool answers
those questions efficiently and reliably. Good protocol
analyzers sell because they save time in answering important
questions. Sniffer recently released a SMB Sniffer
called Netasyst...worth a look if cost has been an issue
in the past.  So ends this biased response. :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Owen DeLong [mailto:owen at delong.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 2:50 PM
To: Austad, Jay; 'nanog at merit.edu'
Subject: Re: Distributed sniffer products

Etherial and other libpcap tools work reasonably well, can be easily 
deployed
using commodity hardware, and would cost you a lot less than NetAssoc.

Owen

--On Wednesday, September 3, 2003 1:07 PM -0500 "Austad, Jay" 
<JAustad at temgweb.com> wrote:

>
> Anyone have any experience with these?  I'm looking for something 
> similar to Network Associates Sniffer product.
>
> Are there any open source projects that are decent?  What are others 
> using?
>
> ----------------
> Jay Austad
> Senior Network Analyst
> Travelers Express / MoneyGram
> e: jaustad at temgweb.com p: 952.591.3779