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-$Id: README,v 1.48 2001/03/06 18:41:29 gram Exp $
+$Id: README,v 1.55 2002/03/11 02:12:41 guy Exp $
 
 General Information
 ------- -----------
@@ -86,16 +86,17 @@ its infancy. However, wiretap is used in ethereal for its ability
 to read multiple file types. You can read the following file
 formats:
 
-libpcap (tcpdump -w, Ethereal)
-Sniffer (compressed and uncompressed)
-NetXray
-Sniffer Pro
-snoop
-atmsnoop
-Shomiti
-LANalyzer
+libpcap (tcpdump -w, etc.) - this is Ethereal's native format
+snoop and atmsnoop
+Shomiti/Finisar Surveyor
+Novell LANalyzer
+Network General/Network Associates DOS-based Sniffer (compressed and
+    uncompressed)
 Microsoft Network Monitor
 AIX's iptrace
+Cinco Networks NetXRray
+Network Associates Windows-based Sniffer
+AG Group/WildPackets EtherPeek/TokenPeek/AiroPeek
 RADCOM's WAN/LAN Analyzer
 Lucent/Ascend access products
 HP-UX's nettl
@@ -103,7 +104,9 @@ Toshiba's ISDN routers
 ISDN4BSD "i4btrace" utility
 Cisco Secure Intrustion Detection System iplogging facility
 pppd logs (pppdump-format files)
-Etherpeek versions 5, 6, and 7
+VMS's TCPIPtrace utility
+DBS Etherwatch for VMS
+Traffic captures from Visual Networks' Visual UpTime
 
 In addition, it can read gzipped versions of any of these files
 automatically, if you have the zlib library available when compiling
@@ -184,12 +187,19 @@ for those packets types.
 
 SNMP
 ----
-Ethereal can do some basic decoding of SNMP packets; it can also use an
-external SNMP library to do more sophisticated decoding..  The configure
-script will automatically determine which library you have on your
-system and will use it.  If you have an SNMP library but _do not_ want
-to have ethereal use it, you can run configure with the "--disable-snmp"
-option. 
+Ethereal can do some basic decoding of SNMP packets; it can also use the
+UCD SNMP library, version 4.2.2 or later, to do more sophisticated
+decoding, by reading MIB files and using the information in those files
+to display OIDs and variable binding values in a friendlier fashion The
+configure script will automatically determine whether you have the UCD
+SNMP library on your system, and will use it if it's version 4.2.2 or
+later.  If you have an SNMP library but _do not_ want to have ethereal
+use it, you can run configure with the "--disable-snmp" option.  (If you
+have an earlier version of the UCD SNMP library on your system, the
+configure script will stop, reporting that it can't find the
+"sprint_realloc_objid()" routine; you should either upgrade to version
+4.2.4, as that version fixes some potential buffer overflow problems, or
+should configure with "--disable-snmp".)
 
 
 How to Report a Bug
@@ -243,5 +253,5 @@ Use at your own risk.
 
 
 Gerald Combs <gerald@ethereal.com>
-Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xiexie.org>
+Gilbert Ramirez <gram@alumni.rice.edu>
 Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>