Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Random raw thoughts, automatic problem diagnosis

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From: Bill Fumerola <billf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 22:13:05 -0500
On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 02:11:40PM +1000, Richard Sharpe wrote:

> With a packed decode engine that is decoupled from display, a la dencode as
> I proposed some time ago, and have made some progress on, one could build a
> simple expert system that could do some automatic fault diagnosis by
> looking for patterns of packets etc ...

Newer versions of Sniffer Pro or NetXRay or whatever it's called now do things
like check for obnoxiously high latency of ACKs to SYNs and things like that.

If I hadn't forgotten my laptop at home I'd list some of the things like that.

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