RE: Re: cost of frame relay snooping

[dnewman () data com]

> Has anyone done any cost assessments about how much it takes to 
> snoop on frame relay lines? 

In addition to Ted Doty's pointers, several net management vendors have adapted 
RMON probes for use on frame relay. I'm familiar with the ones from Netscout 
(formerly Frontier) and Concord, and Bay (which bought Armon) and 3Com (which 
bought Axon) may have something as well.

One of the RMON groups is capture, and these probes' management packages show 
capture buffer contents using decodes that look the Network General Sniffer.

Speaking of the Sniffer, Network General and several other vendors (HP, RADcom, 
TTC, Wandel & Goltermann) have V.35 interfaces for their analyzers. Can't vouch 
for the existence quality of the frame relay decodes, though.

Regards
David Newman
Data Communications magazine