Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Question on remote snooping.

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 09:54:43 -0600
On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 10:42:52PM -0600, Ben Greear wrote:
> 
> 
> > Ethereal could have a multiple capture options from the GUI:
> >
> > 1. Use the regular libpcap (and in some far-off future, wiretap)
> >         capture facility.
> >
> > 2. Run ssh to a remote host and run tcpdump/snoop/tethereal to
> >         capture data. (Probably not tethereal, since it doesn't
> >         dump binary data to stdout)
> >
> > 3. Run a telnet session to a Lucent/Ascend or Toshiba ISDN router
> >         and capture the hex dump to a file.
> >
> > --gilbert
> 
> Any idea of the development time it'd take to do this?  Is it coming
> soon?  I may have some time to dedicate to it in a month or so...but
> please don't wait on me :)

It doesn't sound too hard to implement, but I had not planned
on doing so in the near future because of other Ethereal areas I'm
working on.

--gilbert