Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Ernest L. Williams Jr." <[email protected]> · Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:13:39 -0400

On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 14:59 -0400, Matt Bickley wrote:
> Ned Arnold wrote:
> > All -
> > 
> > COSYLAB is interested in adding Channel Access support to Ethereal (an 
> > open source protocol sniffer) ... for a small fee of course.  I'd like 
> > some feedback on whether this seems useful ... and how much your 
> > institution would be willing to pitch in.
> > 
> > It would be one way to feel a little more independent and confident in 
> > one's ability to investigate site-specific communication anomalies, so 
> > it has a real payback for your project.
> > 
> > Send comments <and checks> to tech-talk.
> 
> We already use ethereal, and it has been very helpful for us
> in diagnosing network issues and in making us aware of poorly
> behaving clients.  You have to wade through a lot of
> extraneous traffic to find the CA-relevant, however.  If
> ethereal had CA support, the tool would be easier to use by
> anyone, not just network protocol experts.
What we have done is to create some nice filters using ethereal to pick
out the EPICS CA TCP and UDP traffic.


Thanks,
Ernest


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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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