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Re: Off Topic Question - Protocol Analyzer



Lior Rotkovitch wrote:

> 1. I want to use protocol analyzer for monitoring my network
>    and I want to know where can I find resources about
>    how to analyze and how to read to Protocol analyzer results
>    does any one use or know where to find a good and a beginner oriented
>    book ,sites ,etc

"TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1", by Stevens, from Addison Wesley, will
give you all you need.


> 2.does Linux have a protocol analyzer (besides ethereal ) ?
>   for now I have some information about Shomiti explorer and shomiti
> surveyor 3.0
>   and also NetXray . are they good ? does Nt have a know problems with these
> tools ?
>   is the OS an issue here ?

When Micro$oft is an option, IMHO the OS is always an issue here. What's
the point of using NT to monitor your network, if most of the times you
will have no monitoring because the host went down on some idiocy ?

Ethereal will give you anything useful that the NT tools can do. If you
need the nifty graphics, you don't need network monitoring, you need 
eye candy.


--izar 
izar@bindview.com - Bindview Development Corporation
Senior Security Engineer - RAZOR Team - HackerShield

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