Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!mips!sgi!vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Subject: traffic monitoring by net snooping Message-ID: <85756@sgi.sgi.com> Date: 15 Feb 91 20:40:48 GMT References: <5455@s3.ireq.hydro.qc.ca> Sender: guest@sgi.sgi.com Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 20 In article <5455@s3.ireq.hydro.qc.ca>, vaillan@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Clement Vaillancourt) writes: > ...[very nice, kind words deleted]... > > I just don't understand why SGI don't port this package to Sun and sell it > with a good profit? The software business is much harder to survive than the hardware business. It is particularly difficult to start doing software only products in a hardware company. It would very difficult to convince the majority of this company to support a port to compeating hardware. Trying to keep up with and properly filter network traffic from an Ethernet or FDDI MAC in promiscuous mode requires substantial support below the application. Such support, if present, is not currently likely to be sufficiently similar on products from hardware vendors. Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com