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The Archimage archimage at linux-magic.com
Thu Mar 8 18:46:05 GMT 2001


Have you looked at ethereal?  I am pretty sure it does filtering.

Thomas

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.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Peter




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