Events in the Packet World

The crazy vendor Packetbone releases their software for 2nd major version.

Why call them crazy?

PacketBone is the only vendor who provide the integration to make a packet analyzer embedded into Microsoft Windows and Office. Now, in the second release, they extend the integration with Wireshark in this recent release. The wireshark fruitful dissectors can be used to parse the packet and export the decode information into BoneLight XLView. It is quite useful.

Another interesting point is BoneLight 2.0 provides a IP Deduplicate feature. According to the experiences, many multiport capture will result duplicated packets, some earlier SPAN settings can lead to duplication too. With those confusing deplicated packets, the analysis feature in mainstream analyzers such as Sniffer, OmniPeek, Observer, Wireshark will work definitely poor and identify everything as retransmission.

Every packet fans should have a try on this, go http://www.packetbone.com

 The Network management and Application performance management vendor PacketBone, releases a new style network analysis product.

  July 1, 2008 — The network management and application performance management vendor PacketBone today releases a new product called BoneLight.

PacketBone claims the product is a start of revolutions in the network analysis area. BoneLight will not rely on traditional independent GUI to analyze the traffic, instead, BoneLight integrate deeply into Microsoft Windows and Office systems to provide seamless analysis features inside of Operating Systems.

BoneLight provide  trace file conversions among libpcap/winpcap, cisco ids traces, Sniffer Pro cap, WildPackets pkt and Observer bfrs. The Wireshark and Endace Dag ERF are supported either.  BoneLight can convert the trace files into an Excel xlsx/xls result, it does provide a brand new experience for the network analysis people.

BoneLight is not only a trace file tool but also bringing benefits to the communication and collaboration for the network guys troubleshooting problem. The integrated Outlook preview handler provides a chance for people using Email and Exchange directly see and input ideas about traffic inside of Office software.