[Uwe Girlich <Uwe.Girlich@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 07:17:09PM +0900, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> Could those who have developed a dissector tell me a little about how you
> came upon Ethereal, and what motivated you to start working on Ethereal?
I'm working on the NFS implementation for ReliantUNIX (UNIX from SIEMENS)
for a living and have always to deal with tcpdump files of NFS traffic.
I extended the ReliantUNIX tcpdump with a full NFS decoder but I needed
something more user-friendly. Around ethereal-0.6.? I made a private version
of Ethereal with RPC and NFSv2 capabilities, which was enough at that time.

Later I discovered it would be better to let other people participate and 
made my changes (which included soon many other RPC services) in the main
development tree (around 0.7.?).

Uwe Girlich