[Ethereal-users] Please let me start by ...

["agroves" <agroves@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello:

 

Please allow me to start by apologizing for my ignorance.  I am confident that I am not nearly as knowledgeable as your average customer.  I am simply a output device (Printer, Copier, Fax) sales person with a decent knowledge of LAN and LAN Printing technologies trying to learn more about host printing solutions and sell host printing technology and hardware to my clients.

 

I was referred to Ethereal as a very good and free utility that would allow me to capture print data-stream.  From this I have indirect access to a group of people that can analyze the data stream and advise what kind of printing the client is doing and then recommend a course of action to designing a solution.

 

I have sued Ethereal to capture packets from a workstation that I sent a few print jobs from which create Unix or AS400 print job.  The suspicion is the environment is using IPDS to print but what I can’t figure out from the documentation or the application is how to filter just the print data from all the other things that make Ethereal so powerful yet and again – way over my head.

 

Could you please advise the best resource or way to proceed – all I want to do is capture print data streams and then send them for analysis.

 

Can you please help.

 

Thank you again and I am sorry for not being more knowledgeable – as you know learning is a process and I am just at the beginning of it.

 

Have a great day.

 

 

A.J. Groves III
Phone: 609-371-7451
Cell: 609-933-4661
P.O. Box 600
Windsor, NJ 08561