Thanks for the info. Could you give me a few details on how to set up Ethereal. Can it run directly on an AW or can I load it on a pc and tie to the node bus? Brian -----Original Message----- From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Corey R Clingo Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 12:43 PM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [foxboro] Node Bus "Sniffer" Ethereal is a good general-purpose sniffer, and free (www.ethereal.com). I think there's even a port for Solaris on sunfreeware.com. Of course, all you'll get is packet capture, and statistics, as I don't think it has a decoder module for Fox I/A nodebus (but it does for just about everything else :). If yoiu want the weighted traffic graph thingie that the newer Network General products provide, there's one out there called Tvark (tvark.com, also free), but I haven't used it. Whether these are better than the original NG Sniffer (tm), I don't know. But they are certainly more accessible to me from a cost standpoint. Now, if only Invensys would publish some protocol details (hint, hint), maybe someone would be inspired to write some decoder plug-ins <g>. Seriously, I'd like to see this happen, for everyone's benefit. Some nodebus-related system problems here (not in my plant, fortunately) underscored the fact that not very many people know what is really happening on the nodebus -- including those that work for Invensys. Corey Clingo BASF Corp. |---------+----------------------------> | | "Brian Long" | | | <blong@xxxxxxx> | | | Sent by: | | | foxboro-bounce@fr| | | eelists.org | | | | | | | | | 07/31/2003 11:42 | | | AM | | | Please respond to| | | foxboro | | | | |---------+----------------------------> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------| | | | To: "Foxboro" | | cc: | | Subject: [foxboro] Node Bus "Sniffer" | >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------| Has anyone had any experience with Network Assoc. Sniffer Pro product for "sniffing" the LAN / node bus. Are there better or cheaper products out there? Thanks, Brian Long E&I Superintendent Green Bay Packaging Arkansas Kraft Division _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave