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Gerald Carter
gcarter at valinux.com
Fri Mar 9 01:50:48 GMT 2001
On Thu, 08 Mar 2001 12:37:22 Peter de Groot wrote:
>
> Be nice to have a "real time" sniffer program that
> gives me a handle on what the browse lists and lookups
> are doing.
>
> nmblookup sort of does it ............. but I
> would like to be able to see the browse list
> synchronising/requests.. what the wins server is
> doing... the browse list/name lookups/election
>
> requests coming in from the windows clients.. also
> the PDC and BDC traffic.
>
> The traffic coming in from other subnets.
>
> Watch the broadcast traffic for domain master etc etc
>
> Would also be nice to see the name lookups ...
> DNS vs and WINS to try and get a bit of a feel on
> how it all hangs together.
>
> Be nice to have this running when starting the
> samba server(s), booting a PC .. running down subnet
> sync problems etc etc
>
> Very often I used to get a rogue PC(s) that used to
> do their own thing.. DNS/wins server settings etc .. and
> this would be useful to find them.
I think I understand what you want. Ethereal might be
a good start. I need to think some.
Cheers, jerry
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