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[Peter de Groot]

True ...

I get the feeling that all of the bits are already in
the code .... just a matter of repackaging them.

Cheers

Peter




Gerald Carter wrote:
> 
> 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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