At 11:43 AM 10/19/00 -0600, John McDermott wrote:
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>Mark Atwood wrote:
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>> I'm starting to see a need for what I'm doing to use ethereal to "live
>> capture" packets from a box that can't run ethereal. (No GTK, no space
>> for it, and no time to do a GTK port).
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>> Before I go down this road, has anyone else walked it. Has such a
>> remote catpure protocol been written already (I know that RMON does it,
>> but thats slow, painful, and baroque), and if so, has anyone written
>> a "caputre module" for it?
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>Actually I'd love to see a RMON/RMON2 feature in Ethereal. We've talked
>about it before. The (old) btng has an rmon1 agent and IIRC there is
>some RMON support in scotty/tkined.
I too, would love to see this. I have done some investigation, looking for
some SNMP code that can retrieve stuff from an agent, so I don't have to
write all that stuff.
There is some SNMP code available, but I was hoping for a working example
of what I want, plus something that I can retrieve data from. The ntop code
looked like a good starting point, but it won't start up the SNMP agent
plugin on my system because of a linking problem :-(
I also checked out MRTG, only to find that it is all PERL code :-(
>While RMON/SMON can be clunky, some of the reason for that is the poor
>GUIs available. In reality it can be quite powerful.
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Regards
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