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                      CommView v.3.4
	   Copyright © 1999-2002, TamoSoft, Inc.
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July 22, 2002

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CONTENTS
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* About CommView
* System Requirements
* Installing CommView
* Uninstalling CommView
* Ordering
* Contacting Us
* What's New
* Other Products by TamoSoft
* Credits

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About CommView
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CommView is a program for monitoring Internet and Local Area
Network (LAN) activity capable of capturing and analyzing
network packets. It gathers information about data passing
through your dial-up connection or Ethernet card and decodes
the analyzed data.

With CommView you can see the list of network connections
and vital IP statistics and examine individual packets.
Packets are decoded down to the lowest layer with full
analysis of the most widespread protocols. Full access to
raw data is also provided. Captured packets can be saved to
log files for future analysis. A flexible system of filters
makes it possible to drop packets you don't need or capture
only those packets that you wish to capture.

CommView is a helpful tool for LAN administrators, security
professionals, network programmers, or anyone who wants to
have a full picture of the traffic going through one's PC or
LAN segment.

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System Requirements
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* An Ethernet or Wireless Ethernet network card supporting the
  NDIS 3.0 driver standard, or a standard dial-up adapter.
* Pentium 75 of faster. 
* Windows 95/98/Me/NT SP4 or higher/2000/XP. 
* Windows NT/2000/XP users: you MUST have administrative 
  privileges to install and run CommView.
* 32 MB RAM (64 MB recommended).
* 6 MB of free disk space.

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Installing CommView
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* If you already have an older CommView version installed, uninstall
  it and reboot.
* Unzip the ZIP archive to a temporary folder.
* Double-click setup.exe to execute it.
* Setup will guide you through the rest of the installation
  process. 

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Uninstalling CommView
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* Choose Uninstall from the CommView program group.

		OR:

* Open the Windows Control Panel.
* Double-click the "Add/Remove programs" icon.
* Search the list for the item "CommView" and
  double-click on it.

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Ordering
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This program is a 30-day evaluation version. Below is the
pricing for the fully functional, unrestricted version of
the program:

License Type				Price, US$

CommView Home License 1 user
(for private, noncommercial usage)	 99.00

CommView Enterprise License 1 user
(for professional, commercial usage)	249.00

* The less expensive Home License grants you the right to
use the program at home for noncommercial purposes. If you
use CommView to monitor your home network, the maximum
number of hosts in your LAN this license allows you to
monitor cannot exceed five. 

* The more expensive Enterprise License grants you the right
to use the program anywhere for any commercial or
noncommercial purpose. 

One licensed copy of CommView may be used by a single person
who uses the software personally on one or more computers,
or it may be installed on a single workstation used
non-simultaneously by more than one person, but not both.
Check our web site for pricing on multiuser licenses if you
need to purchase this product for more than one user.


As a registered user, you will receive:

* Fully functional, unrestricted copy of the software.
* Free updates that will be released within 1 year from
  the date of purchase.
* Information on updates and new products.
* Free technical support.

We accept credit cards orders, orders by phone and
fax, checks, and wire transfers. Prices, terms,
and conditions are subject to change without
notice, please check our web site for the latest
product offerings and prices:

http://www.tamos.com/order/


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Contacting Us
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Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Bug reports? Don't 
hesitate to contact us. 

WWW:	http://www.tamos.com
E-mail:	support@tamos.com

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What's New
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Version 3.4

* New protocol decoding modules have been added: BGP, CDP, EIGRP,
IGRP, IPsec, HSRP, NFS, OSPF, RADIUS, RIP, RPC, SNA, VTP, WAP,
802.1Q, 802.1X.
* New log file management tools that allow you to
split/concatenate CCF files have been added.
* TCP Session Reconstruction windows now allow you to jump the
next session between the two hosts.
* New features in the Statistics window: switching between bits
and bytes per second, a bandwidth usage indicator, IP protocol
and sub-protocol charts by number of bytes or by number of
packets.
* Optional non-promiscuous mode.
* Import of capture files in MS NetMon and NAI Sniffer for
Windows.
* Syntax highlighting in the advanced formula window.
* Improved Windows XP themes support.
* An important bug fix in the advanced rules hex function; this
function didn't work correctly for the byte patterns that
included 0x00.


Version 3.3

* Advanced rules that allow you to create complex filters using
Boolean logic and simple, easy to understand syntax.
* New protocol decoding modules have been added: FTP, TFTP, SOCKS
(v. 4,5), TELNET.
* Yet another performance improvement.
* New features in Packet Generator: drag-and-drop support for
many packet formats, high-speed packet generation (up to 5,000
packets/sec), and ability to send many different packets with a
single click.
* Log files can be optionally concatenated into a single file
when the program stops capturing.
* New export formats: comma-delimited files with and without hex
data.
* You can now save packets in different formats (CCF, ENC, etc.)
directly, without first loading log files into Log Viewer.
* LAN Hosts tables can now handle up to 1,000 MAC and IP
addresses.
* Optional "Size" column is available in the packet list.
* You can define network addresses and subnet masks for the IP
addresses that you want the program to treat as local ones.
* Many minor improvements and bug fixes.


Version 3.2

* New protocol decoding modules have been added: SNMP (v. 1,2,3),
  IPv6, ICQ, GRE, RDP.
* A major performance improvement when opening/importing capture 
  files: files are loaded up to 25 times faster.
* Lower CPU usage.
* Extended NIC statistics, such as collisions and CRC errors, 
  are available.
* You can apply rules to pre-captured data in Log Viewer.
* Improved Find Packet dialog.

Version 3.1

* New protocol decoding modules have been added: DHCP, DNS, 
  HTTP, POP3, RTSP, SMTP.
* A new, unique remote monitoring technology.
* You can add up to 4 custom protocols to the IP Sub-protocols
  chart.
* You can import capture files in Tcpdump (libcap) format.
* More configuration options have been added.
* Many minor improvements and bug fixes.


Version 3.0

* A new protocol decoder; now supports ARP, BCAST, BMP,
DIAG, ICMP, IGMP, IPv4, IPX, NCP, NDS, NetBIOS, NLSP, PPP,
PPPoE, RARP, RIPX, RSVP, SAP, SER, SMB, SPX, TCP, UDP, WDOG.
More protocols coming soon.
* Supports Wireless Ethernet (802.11b) adapters.
* The program is ready for Windows XP (tested with RC1).
* The Packet Generator can now send packets via the Windows
2000/XP dial-up adapter.
* A protocol decoder and checksum corrector were added to
the Packet Generator.
* You can optionally run multiple instances of CommView to
monitor several adapters simultaneously.
* IP Statistics can be included in the Statistics Report.
* A new LAN Hosts by IP Address table has been added to the
Statistics window.
* The TCP Reconstruction window allows you to
exclude/include data based on the packet direction.
* You can now filter packets based on TCP flags.
* The program can run in invisible mode.
* You can now share CommView data with your own application
using a simple TCP/IP interface.
* The Packets tab allows you to select multiple packets.

Version 2.6

* Aliases can be assigned to IP addresses.
* Current rules can be applied to the Statistics window and
reports.
* PPPoE decoding
* TCP Session Reconstruction windows now non-modal, allowing
you to have several open windows with different sessions.
* Minor interface improvements and bug fixes


Version 2.5

* Full drag-and-drop support: you can now drag IP
Statistics, individual packets, and graphs and drop them to
the desktop or any folder. You can drag capture files (CCF,
ENC, or BFR) and drop them to the application.
* Packet Size Distribution chart and LAN Hosts Table have
been added to the Statistics window.
* Automatic or manual report generation: all statistics data
can be saved as HTML or semicolon-delimited reports. (See
the "Report" tab in the Statistics window.)
* The TCP Session Reconstruction window now allows you to
view data as HTML and EBCDIC in addition to ASCII and HEX.

Version 2.4

* TCP session reconstruction
* Aliases can be assigned to MAC addresses.
* NIC Vendor Identifier
* More columns are available on the "IP Statistics" and
"Packets" tabs.
* Columns on the "Packets" and "IP Statistics" tabs can be
hidden.
* ARP/RARP packets are decoded.
* Wildcards can be used in IP Address rules.
* The "Both" option in capturing rules is available in
addition to the "From" and "To" options.
* Tabs with active rules are now displayed in bold font.
* Packet output can be suspended/resumed.
* Several alternative IP Statistics layouts are available.
* Other minor improvements


Version 2.3

* Dial-up support under Windows 2000


Version 2.2

* MAC, IP, and TCP/UDP/ICMP headers are colorized.
* The contents of the IP Statistics tab can be saved as an
HTML file.
* Added Packet Generator allows you to send packets.
* Your rules configurations can be saved/loaded.
* Text rules can now be made case sensitive.
* Improved Find Packet Contents dialog
* Bug fix: problems with starting the driver on localized
Windows 2000 systems have been solved.


Version 2.1

* Log Viewer: You can now load and explore capture files
just as you do with real-time captured data.
* You can import and export capture files from/to the NI
Observer or the NAI Sniffer file formats.
* Port numbers can be displayed as service names.
* A new "Jump To" feature allows you to quickly find packets
going to/coming from a given IP address.
* A few interface improvements
* Bug fix: The previous versions showed an incorrect UDP
checksum.


Version 2.01

* Windows 2000 support


Version 2.0 Final

* Improved performance on Windows NT systems
* A few bugs found in 2.0 Beta were fixed.


Version 2.0 Beta

* Windows NT support
* More statistical information


Version 1.0 Final

* New functions: Find Packet and Go to Packet Number
* New filters: Capture/ignore packets based on MAC addresses
and packet direction
* Statistics: Packets per second and Bytes per second
histograms, IP protocols and sub-protocols distribution
graphs
* Bug fix: The text filter in v.1.0 Beta could sometimes
capture packets that did not contain specified text; this
problem has been resolved.



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Other Products by TamoSoft
==========================

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Unlike standard whois utilities, it automatically delivers
information associated with an IP address or domain no
matter where it is registered geographically. In just a few
seconds, you get all you want to know about a user: domain,
network name, country, state or province, and city. Even if
the IP address cannot be resolved to a hostname, SmartWhois
won't fail!

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to the owning application. It also features a fast NetBIOS
scanner, a NetBIOS Auditing Tool for checking LAN security,
and a monitor of external connections to your computer's
shared resources, as well as a process monitor that displays
information about all the programs and services running on
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and a customizable interface. The program is an easy-to-use
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DigiSecret

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You can learn more about these products at
http://www.tamos.com/products/

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Credits
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* This program contains software licensed from Walied Othman.
* This program contains the Ethernet vendor codes list by 
  Laurent Deniel.
