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Written by:
Shawn Bass
Monday, July 02, 2007 7:37:23 PM
NetMon 3.1 is released and available on the Microsoft Connect site (the final release on the MS Download site will be posted in a few weeks). Here's a rundown of the new features:
- Wireless (802.11) capturing and monitor mode on Vista – With
supported hardware, (Native WIFI), you can now trace wireless
management packets. You can scan all channels or a subset of the ones
your wireless NIC supports. You can also focus in on one specific
channel. We now show the wireless metadata for normal wireless frames.
This is really cool for t-shooting wireless problems. See signal
strength and transfer speed as you walk around your house!
- RAS tracing support on Vista – Now you can trace your RAS
connections so you can see the traffic inside your VPN tunnel.
Previously this was only available with XP.
- Right click add to filter – Now there's an easier way to
discover how to create filters. Right click in the frame details data
element or a column field in the frame summary and select add to
filter. What could be easier!
- Microsoft Update enabled – Now you will be prompted when new
updates exist. NM3.1 will occasionally check for a new version and
notify you when one is available.
- New look filter toolbar – We've changed the UI related to
apply and remove filters. You can now apply a filter without having to
UN-apply it first.
- New reassembly engine – Our reassembly engine has been improved to handle a larger variety of protocol reassembly schemes.
- New public parsers – These include ip1394, ipcp, ipv6cp,
madcap, pppoE, soap, ssdp, winsrpl, as well as improvements in the
previously shipped parsers.
- Numerous Bug Fixes – We've taken your reported problems on the connect site and fixed many of the confirmed bugs.
- Faster Parser Loading – We've significantly improved the time
it takes to load the parsers. Now rebuilding takes a fraction of the
time it used to.
For those of you who are huge Ethereal/Wireshark fans, you really should checkout NetMon as it's really shaping up to be a nice product. Plus you don't need to buy SMS to use it anymore 
Shawn
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