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From: jbvb@ftp.COM (James Van Bokkelen)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Protocol Analyzer?
Summary: FTP sells LANWatch, which runs on a PC you supply.
Message-ID: <389@ftp.COM>
Date: 26 Oct 88 15:41:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: ftp.389
References: <5500003@techsup>
Organization: FTP Software Inc., Cambridge, MA
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In article <5500003@techsup>, tomfout@techsup.UUCP writes:
> 
> I'm looking for a protocol analyzer.
> It needs to be able to handle a large number
> of protocols and yet still be fairly inexpensive.
> ...
> Thomas Fout aka TRouT

Our LANWatch is a software-only protocol analyzer.  You supply the PC
and the network interface.  Spend more on a fast PC or network interface
and it will perform better.  It understands IP well, Chaosnet, DECnet,
XNS and 802.2 headers less well.  We supply source for packet filtering
and parsing routines with the product (needs Microsoft C to re-build it),
so you can add specialized packet types, etc.  The current version comes
with more filter/parsing routines than will fit in a single executable,
which we will fix in the next release.  We sell it for $1200 quantity 1.

There is also the MIT/CMU Netwatch program, distributed with the PC-IP
public-domain TCP/IP package.  It doesn't have much in the way of
packet parsing or symbolic filters, though.

James VanBokkelen
FTP Software Inc.
(617) 868-4878