links for 2009-06-29

• Wireshark 1.2.0 available
  I've had many occasion where I've needed to use a packet sniffer to find the source of a problem. It was usually management or other developers blaming my software, because it MUST be the newest software added that caused problems. 100% of the time, it was either hardware or preexisting software problems in other computers/devices on the network. I've spent many hours playing the guilty until proven innocent game. Too many. Unfortunately most sniffers suck, especially at detecting low level(NIC level) messages. I may have to give this one a test drive.
  (tags: tools network sniffer ethernet)

~ by chriggy on June 30, 2009.