Wow, Slashdot is really up to quality these days.

Check this article out dubbed “A Network Sniffer on Steroids”. A poster in the comments hit the nail on the head.

Inventing 1/16th of the Wheel

The Errata sniffer, dubbed Ferret, packs more punch than other network sniffers already available, such as Ethereal and Kismet, because it looks at so many different protocols, Graham said. Some at Black Hat called it a “network sniffer on steroids.”

Oh Wowsers! DHCP, SNMP, DNS and HTTP! That’s so many! It’s a shame Ethereal can only look at these [ethereal.com]!

Indeed. Why do developers insist on making applications that already do stuff perfectly. I mean, ethereal is completely pluggable. This is total arrogance.