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From: robert@cheviot.uucp (Robert Stroud)
Newsgroups: net.lan
Subject: Re: Ethernet monitoring
Message-ID: <411@cheviot.uucp>
Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 11:58:58 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  7 11:58:58 1985
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Reply-To: robert@cheviot.UUCP (Robert Stroud)
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Spider Systems produce an Ethernet monitor which sells for 4618 pounds.
It knows about the format of IP, XNS and ISO packets and can be used
to trace packets that match a particular pattern. A nice feature is the
ability to use local host names instead of Ethernet addresses. It can
also collect statistics, draw usage graphs, generate traffic, and test
the connectivity of the network.

We saw a demonstration the other day and liked it a lot, not least
because it tracked down a long-standing mysterious bug very quickly!
In fact we liked it so much we're going to buy one.

As a relatively new product, it is only available in the UK at present.

For further information contact...

	Spider Systems Limited,
	65 Bonnington Road,
	Edinburgh,
	EH6 5JQ

	+44 31 554 9197

(or try ...!ukc!edcaad!hwcs!spider)

DISCLAIMER

This is just my personal opinion and does not represent the opinion of
the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. I have nothing to do with Spider
Systems either.

Robert J Stroud,
Computing Laboratory,
University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

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