Excellent.
We didn't know that on Solaris.
Just to say... our starting poit was already wrong...
Cheers,
fulvio
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ethereal-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:ethereal-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Guy Harris
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 01:11
> To: Loris Degioanni
> Cc: Mark Atwood; ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx; ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Ethereal-users] Re: R: [Ethereal-dev] Remote online packet
> capture?
>
>
> > This allows to the applications written over winpcap/libpcap to
> > transparently capture from a remote host if linked with this remote
> > version: they need only to specify the name of the adapter with a proper
> > syntax (for example "machinename:adaptername") in pcap_open_live, and
> > the capture is routed to the remote agent.
>
> The Ethereal code to get a list of interfaces skips addresses that begin
> with "dummy", or that included a ":", saying that the latter are
> "Solaris virtuals"; I infer from
>
> http://bugs.apache.org/index.cgi/full/1540
>
> that the syntax of a Solaris virtual interface is "<interface
> name>:<number>".
>
> This means that a "machinename:adaptername" syntax *might* be
> indistinguishable from a virtual interface name, although I don't know
> whether Ethereal omits the virtual interfaces because you can't capture
> on them, because you wouldn't want to capture on them, or for some other
> reason, so I don't know whether simply treating all device names with
> colons as remote interface names would work.
>
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