[61729] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Distributed sniffer products
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Braun, Mike)
Wed Sep 3 16:45:20 2003
From: "Braun, Mike" <MBraun@firstam.com>
To: "'Brennan_Murphy@NAI.com'" <Brennan_Murphy@NAI.com>,
owen@delong.com, JAustad@temgweb.com, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 13:32:24 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
We've been playing with Wildpackets http://www.wildpackets.com/. They sniff
LAN to Gig and some WAN as well. The Distributed model is still vaporware,
but is said to be out soon. The expert analysis is comparable if not better
than NAI.
Mike Braun
-----Original Message-----
From: Brennan_Murphy@NAI.com [mailto:Brennan_Murphy@NAI.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 1:02 PM
To: owen@delong.com; JAustad@temgweb.com; nanog@merit.edu
Subject: RE: Distributed sniffer products
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@delong.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 2:50 PM
To: Austad, Jay; 'nanog@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@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@temgweb.com p: 952.591.3779
