Purpose of the application
To provide an affordable sniffer with a better user interface for network software developers and MIS managers and technicians.
Distribution category
Commercial.
Availability
Available now in binary distribution. See below for contact.
Description of application
Tesla is designed to monitor Ethernet and Token Ring LAN, to decode and analyze protocols. The following is a list of features:
- Monitoring
- utilization, traffic by node, frame size, broadcast percentage, protocol usage, common application usage.
- Protocol Analysis
- ts TCP/IP, NFS, IPX, NCP, AppleTalk, DECnet, ... special SNMP support color coded according to protocol layers powerful and easy-to-use filters
- Traffic Generator
- generate traffic by load, replay, interframe gap, ...
- MIB Browser
- graphic representation of MIB tree for easy navigation easy browsing of SNMP agent
- SNMP Agent QuickTest
- compiling MIB into a database with included MIB compiler automatic testing of various aspects of a SNMP agent uncover inconsistency between MIB definition and implementation
- Context-sensitive On-line Help
Supports any network card with a promiscuous mode packet driver (NDIS and ODI support is coming soon).
Developmental problems and response
The biggest problem is the size limitation of real-mode DOS program. Borland DOS extender is used to resolve this problem.
The second most troublesome thing is dealing with 64K data space. I resorted to various techniques, including using TV's resource file facility.
I still can not get used to the speed of BC 4.0 compilation. The compromise is:
During development and testing I use BC3.1's IDE and then use BC4.0 for final linking. In order for this strategy to work, you have to develop two sets for components which are different between real mode and protected mode.
For debugging I found building as a protected mode program is better; a bug is unlikely to hang your machine as it does in real mode Turbo Debugger.
Cerulean Software
- Postal address
- 57 Hillside Road
Watertown, MA 02172, USA- Telephone
- +1+(617)584-7372
- ren@cerulean.ultranet.com
info@cerulean.com