dpz@convex.com (David Paul Zimmerman) (08/17/89)
Oh well, MIS is getting a Sniffer, so I'll be playing with that until I can justify my own toy. Thanks for all the replies, though. If anyone else was thinking of piecing together their own low-budget net tool, they might want to look at what I was really hot on -- the Altima One, by Altima Systems. Basic stats: classic laptop form factor, '286, 20Mb of disk, 1M of memory, 1 parallel, 1 serial, a built in 2400 baud modem, and a real half-PC slot. They claim that it has the power and physical space to drive a real Ethernet card, and that they have a bunch of these networked up with real cards in their office. The cost is currently $2700, so you could put together a neat network tool for a pretty decent price. David PS - I'm only affiliated with Convex, and these aren't even their views... David Paul Zimmerman dpz@convex.com CONVEX Computer Corp convex!dpz