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From: jbvb@FTP.COM ("James B. Van Bokkelen")
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Searching a PD/SW program to display TCP/IP-frames !
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Date: 23 Mar 91 04:01:13 GMT
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       I am looking after a program (PD or shareware) that can be used with
       a packet driver and wich displays/interprets tcp/ip.
       Sniffer does this very well but I'm looking for something cheaper :-)
    
    Netwatch doesn't interpret tcp/ip to any level of detail, not like
    tcpwatch on Suns.  Perhaps someone could port tcpwatch to the PC?
    
There are at least two commercial LAN monitor programs for PCs which
cost a lot less than a Sniffer (< 5%): Our LANWatch and TWG's WIN/Watch.
As you might guess, both are derived from MIT's Netwatch, but the
developers took somewhat different directions.  Both parse IP, UDP and
TCP headers symbolically, as well as a lot of other stuff.

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