Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] new user

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From: Ian Schorr <spamcontrol2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 12:11:30 -0400
Adam,

Ethereal is not developed by a single corporation or major organization, but is an Open Source Software project that, like many other OSS projects, is maintained mostly by individuals working in their spare time or by members of organizations with interests in improving/contributing specific parts of the program. Ethereal, the organization, doesn't have a "tech support phone number".

There's nothing to stop any corporation from selling Ethereal or providing support for it, though most would probably charge a fee, or provide the support because you bought their product (Niksun, for example, offers a modified Ethereal as part of their "NetXpert" suite, and I assume they provide support for it), but to my knowledge no organization has put together a "tech support" system just for Ethereal.

Ethereal isn't the most straight-forward program in the world, especially less intuitive if you're not a programmer, or haven't done an extraordinary amount of protocol analysis in the past, and documentation is, well, not the best. However, if you haven't already, take a look at the User Guide and Man page (copies are on the Ethereal web site, http://www.ethereal.com), and we'll try to help as much as we can here.

Ian

On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, at 01:55 PM, Brown, Adam V. SPC Army G3/AOC/CCSA wrote:

can i get a phone number for some tech support, i just need someone to give me a basic walk through of how to use the software, i am familliar with other sniffing software some what but i am new at this

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