Colasoft Packet Sniffer Now Supports ISL and FCoE

Released on: October 23, 2008, 11:20 pm

Press Release Author: Colasoft Co., Ltd.

Industry: Internet & Online

Press Release Summary:

Press Release Body: Colasoft, a dedicator in network analysis field, recently
released version 6.9 of its flagship product - Capsa, a packet sniffer software
designed for network monitoring and troubleshooting purpose. Two new protocols,
Cisco Inter-Switch Link (ISL) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) now can be
recognized and decoded. This latest version also improved user's experience based on
user's feedbacks.

What's New in Capsa 6.9

Support ISL Protocol Decoding: Cisco Inter-Switch Link (ISL) is a Cisco
Systems proprietary protocol that maintains VLAN information as traffic flows
between switches and routers, or switches and switches. It is a protocol to
encapsulate traffic from different vlans, and tag them for latter specification. Now
all trunk traffic between switch -- switch or router -- switch can be decoded and
the context inside of the trunk link can be analyzed.

Support FCoE Protocol Decoding: Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is a
proposed mapping of Fibre Channel frames over selected full duplex IEEE 802.3
networks. This allows Fibre Channel to leverage 10 Gigabit Ethernet networks while
preserving the Fibre Channel protocol. The specification is supported by a large
number of network and storage vendors, including Cisco, EMC, HP, IBM, Intel, and Sun
Microsystems.

View IP address and Hostname in One Tab:Capsa will automatically resolve
hostname and display it in its interface. In version 6.8 users may view only the
hostname or the IP address at a time, if they want to view another value, they need
to switch manually. In 6.9 users can directly view both the IP address and the
hostname at the same time, which provides correlation between the two values

"We'll always take into consideration good suggestions from our customers", Said Roy
Luo, the CEO of Colasoft, "and include them in future releases to ensure highest
satisfaction."

"It's the easiest product to use. The support is excellent and the features added in
subsequent releases are always well thought-out and beneficial to our company." Eric
Gomez, CSO, InfoSight, Inc.

Colasoft Packet Sniffer - Capsa
Capsa is packet sniffer software designed for network monitoring and troubleshooting
purpose. It performs real-time packet capturing, 24/7 network monitoring, advanced
protocol analyzing, in-depth packet decoding, and automatic expert diagnosing. By
giving users insights into all of the network's operations, Capsa makes it easy to
isolate and solve network problems, identify network bottleneck and bandwidth use,
and detect network vulnerabilities, external attacks and insecure applications.

Capsa 6.9 runs under Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista. A trial version is available at the
company's web site: http://www.colasoft.com/

About Colasoft
Ever since 2001, Colasoft has been dedicated in providing all-in-one and easy-to-use
network analysis software for customers to monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot their
network. Up to now, more than 4000 customers in 70 countries trust our featured
product - Capsa as their network analysis solution. The company also offers four
free network utilities: Colasoft Packet Builder, Colasoft Packet Player, Colasoft
MAC Scanner, and Colasoft Ping Tool.

Web Site: http://www.colasoft.com/capsa/

Contact Details: Address: 10/F, Bld.5, South Chengdu Hi-Tech Plaza, Chengdu
China (People's Rep)

Phone Number: +86 28-8512-0922
Email: submission@colasoft.com

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