Vas Sniffer Program

Occasionally, it may be necessary to use a packet sniffer to trouble shoot a network issue. A program call etheral is often used, but it is a difficult tool to use occasionally as it captures way too much data. As an alternative, we have developed a webstart tool that will capture packets and filter everything out not related to the http protocol we use on dc server, Pocket cowcard and Remote Support. To use the program:

  1. Go to this link and install WinPcap http://www.winpcap.org
  2. Click on the following link http://www.vas.com/VasSniffer.jnlp
Note that this tool doesn't currently work with Pocket Cowcard USB connections as the packet sizes are too small for the the current algorithm.