<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Marc,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">You said:</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">></font><font size=2><tt>Now I know its a packet monitoring program can someone<br>
>please explain what the purpose apart from looking at packets its used for.</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>You need something more? ;-)</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>ethereal is one of the best troubleshooting tools you can get because it does things like permitting you to follow particular conversations from a captured datastream by selective use of filtering/masking.</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>This is especially useful when some nasty person attacks you, because you can reconstruct what the bounder did, if you can get a full packet dump in a transportable format ( i.e. pcap format )</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>I've found it very useful when investigating "malicious activity" of various sorts, backing up IDS alerts.</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>It is pleasant to disabuse people of the notion that "In Cyberspace no one can see your crime".</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Regards,</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>tom.</tt></font>
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