Unsniff in Education
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University
level networking and protocols courses
Cisco / Juniper and other certification training
Self learning |
Teachers communicate better with Unsniff
- Enhance your teaching experience
- Current generation and open source tools have primitive
visualization capabilities (hex dumps)
- Create new coursework material and assignments
- Introduce an element of fun into your classroom
Top features for teachers, students, and researchers
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Unmatched and
pioneering visualizations
Are you still
asking your students to look at boring hex dumps ?
- Unsniff is set to change how protocols are
visualized. We spent a lot of time desiging the visual breakout;
layout algorithms and
graphics that are specially suited for visualizing protocols.
- Make it easier for you to communicate concepts such
as protocol layering, bit fields, IP addresses, ports, reassembly, and
more !
- Self documenting: Your students can discover how
protocols work by just using the self documenting bubble help
feature of Unsniff.
- The ultimate self
learning tool for network protocols.
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Stunning graphical printouts
Create new course
material, tests, slides
- Unsniff goes the extra yard when it comes to printing
- Print packets in full graphical detail for the
desired layers
- Print TCP ladder diagrams (must see)
- Create handouts and quizzes for your class using
these printouts
- Create slides (transparencies) to help you with your
class
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Create interactive assignments
and projects
Unsniff is the
ideal platform to create interesting projects and assignments.
Some examples:
- Bookmarks and Annotations : You can post an
interesting Unsniff capture file containing TCP packets and ask your
students to bookmark all the 3-way hand shake packets. Annotations are
small notes you can attach to any packet.
- Filters : Unsniff contains a powerful and easy to use
capture and display filter wizard. You can ask students to create
filters
to look for certain types of traffic or to isolate traffic.
- Advanced : There are endless projects you can create
using simple Unsniff Scripting,
see examples of tracking busy servers,
tcp analysis, and other samples at the script library.
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Special support for TCP
Get your students
to a different level using Unsniffs' powerful TCP analysis functions
- Special "time-lag" ladder diagram allows you to
communicate the most difficult concepts about TCP
- Projector friendly displays
- Ultimate printing support for ladder diagrams
- The streams sheet allows students to watch TCP
behavior in real time
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Top down analysis is fun
Start from what is interesting
"User objects"
are another innovation from Unsniff. A
user object is any entity that is of maximum interest to the user for a
given context. For example : If we are talking about HTTP, what is more
interesting than seeing rendered HTML pages, other objects
are flash, audio, scripts. For VoIP protocols, the user objects are
audio channels and so forth. Read more..
- Connect different protocols layers together
- Look at reconstructed HTTP sessions, drill down to
the TCP connections, then to the link layer packets
- Far more effective than groping in the dark for the
appropriate ethernet (or other link layer) frames
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Multilingual teaching
Use any language
for your teaching
- Unsniff is designed and built as a Unicode
application from the ground up.
- It is currently available in English and Japanese.
- We will be adding support for more languages based on
customer demand.
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Unsniff as a teaching aid
Whether you are teaching NET 101 or NET 901 - hands on lab
assignments are essential for a complete understanding of the course
material. Currently a large number of universities and
colleges are using tools like tcpdump, or ethereal as the primary
teaching aids. While these tools are excellent (especially Ethereal) in
the sheer breadth of protocols supported, their weakness in
visualization, reassembly, and extensibility make it hard to adapt them
to a teaching environment. Unsniff is designed to be
adaptable to various teaching situations. The simple and direct packet
displays are so intuitive that your students will understand it
instantly.
- In the
classroom: You can use Unsniff to explain various
network concepts such as TCP/IP handshaking, how protocols are layered
on top of each other, client server communication, IPv4 and IPv6, etc.
Printouts generated by Unsniff are so rich that they can be used in all
your slides. No more drawing protocols by hand. The Unsniff packet
display can be undocked so that it can be projected full-screen in
classrooms with multiple projectors.
- Fun:
Teaching is fun with Unsniff because of its
high-level analysis capabilities. You can use a SIP phone to make a
call - then play back the captured conversation. You can visit a few
websites - and view the entire contents as is.
- Assignments:
Unsniff is the ideal platform for lab
assignments. Once you have a capture file with "interesting data" - you
can ask students to answer various questions using Unsniff alone. For
example : You can ask students to bookmark all packets that are part of
a TCP/IP 3-way handshake - or - mark all link layer packets that form a
PDU.
- Customize it:
If you want to teach a specific topic such
as TCP/IP congestion avoidance algorithm, you can write very simple
scripts in VBScript or Ruby. These can be integrated into your
installation of Unsniff. Your students can then access your analysis
tool by right clicking on a TCP/IP stream and selection a command from
the menu.
- Advanced:
You can use Unsniff to teach advanced topics
such as
security or wireless networks. You can customize Unsniff to support the
specific protocol just the way you want it. Unsniff provides all the
base functionality such as PDUs, reassembly, decryption,
defragmentation, and decompression.
For more information about how Unsniff Network Analyzer can help with
your particular usage scenario, contact us at 
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