Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] stream from file?

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From: Frank Sweetser <fs@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 15:27:51 -0400
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 11:38:30AM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 12:21:36PM -0400, Frank Sweetser wrote:
> > We've got a setup where one box is doing a capture with tcpdump -w -, and
> > streaming it out to a file on a different box for analysis.  Right now,
> > once the file is opened, you have to keep hitting refresh to update, and
> > it complains that a packet got cut off (which is true).
> 
> Try doing a capture with the "capture device" being
> 
> 	rsh {the other box} tcpdump -w -
> 
> or something such as that (perhaps using "sudo", if necessary to run
> tcpdump as root).

I don't see anywhere to put in a command for the capture device - where
would I do this?

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