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News Release from: Computer Solutions | Subject: PacketView Pro
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 21 June 2002
Monitor keeps watch on TCP/IP networks
PacketView Pro is a low-cost PC-based real-time monitor and protocol analyser that allows developers and field engineers to capture and decode network traffic for most popular TCP/IP links.
PacketView Pro from Computer Solutions is a low-cost PC-based real-time monitor and protocol analyser that allows developers, field engineers and network managers to capture and decode network traffic for most popular TCP/IP links The system intercepts and captures all network packets, and then filters, saves, decodes and displays them
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 13 Dec 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The line mode display shows the packets in a concise time-ordered form, while the detail mode displays the contents of the packets, with each field displayed and individually interpreted.
These displays enable the contents to be shown in a helpful way, without need for the user to count and decode bytes or to check for valid packets.
PacketView Pro incorporates a TCP/IP aware serial debugger known as SerialView that is aware of the PPP protocol and is ideal for examining the traffic between modems PacketView Pro is ideally suited to use by network engineers creating and testing new protocols and applications, including embedded systems and client/server applications.
For applications requiring proprietary or custom protocol decoders, it allows users to independently develop their own protocol decoders (using a Microsoft C compiler) which are then automatically loaded when PacketView Pro starts.
It works with any packet driver or ODI driver that supports promiscuous mode and it fully decodes encapsulated protocols like IP tunnelling and L2TP.
The system supports Ethernet, asynchronous PPP and synchronous (ISDN) PPP, Token Ring, Arcnet and FDDI, and runs on a standard PC with most network interface cards.
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