Thanx Helen and Doug.

Ethereal was exactly what I was looking for.
If you think it is too complex to use you've never used a
hardware-sniffer :-)
All in all it is solid, and exports its dumps into many formats, so that
I can analyze them just as I used them to do....

I can only encourage everyone to use such tools when building C/S apps,
as they will reveal any weaknesses in your programming style...

When we used to do the network-benchmarks on standard-application
software, we had differences around 2500% in network usage, and the
packet size/roundtrips even diverged further. This can be very easy
transferred into overall performance, as the network is very often the
bottleneck in large installations.

CU,

Nick Josipovic

BIT Institute
Prof. Dr. Franz Steffens
University of Mannheim
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Chamberlin [mailto:DChamberlin@...]
> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 11:46 PM
> To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [ib-support] [OT] Software Network traffic sniffer
>
> At 12/17/2001 05:32 PM (Monday), Kaputnik wrote:
> >Does anyone know of any similar software, which can sniff

network-traffic

> on
> >a distinct port (presumably 3050) to let me know how much bandwidth

my

> apps
> >need in different configurations?
> >It should be freeware and should be able to report at least packet

size,

> >packet count and roundtrips-count.
>
> I've played a bit with http://www.ethereal.com under Windows 2000 Pro.
> Worked fine but took a bit of learning to figure out. I barely got it

too

> work before I moved on to other things so all I can say is it is real,
> does
> work, is free open source.
>