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

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 22:05:35 -0800
> > 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.

Yes, the Pro versions of the Sniffer products have "Experts" that can
detect stuff such as that; I think Microsoft Network Monitor 2.0 has a
similar mechanism.