Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Sniffer Pro vs. Ethereal

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From: "McNutt, Justin M." <McNuttJ@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:39:41 -0500
I believe we have a licensed copy of Sniffer Pro, and we have devices
running Bay Autotopology and CDP on our network (the local network, even).
I'll make a note to get back with you on exactly what you need along these
lines.

--J

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 4:48 PM
> To: McNutt, Justin M.
> Cc: 'Jeff Parker'; 'Guy Harris'; 'ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Sniffer Pro vs. Ethereal
> 
> 
> > 3)  Decode certain proprietary or esoteric protocols.  
> Nifty, but hardly
> > essential.  We're about to turn Bay Autotopology and Cisco Discovery
> > Protocol off...
> 
> Note that CDP can, at least in part, be dissected by Ethereal.  (If
> there are things that a Sniffer dissects and Ethereal doesn't, the
> Ethereal dissector could probably be modified to do so; send us a
> Sniffer capture, and a text file with printed output from the 
> Sniffer.)
>