Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal Client/Server Model

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From: Hannes Gredler <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 20:05:58 +0100
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:30:48AM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote:
| On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 donnie@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
| 
| > Hello.
| > 
| > I just joined this list, and I would like to help with the development of
| > ethereal.  I work for a very large corporation, and for our network, we
| > like to put in place sniffers to check certain connections.  We currently
| > use Sniffer Distributed as our sniffer software.  The main ability of that
| > software that we like is how it can be used as a client/server.  Thus
| > allowing for us to place a sniffer on remote locations then connect to
| > that sniffer and analyze the packets.
| > 
| > I was wondering, if anyone would be interested in helping to implement
| > this type of client/server model for ethereal?  I am not extremely
| > familiar with the code for ethereal, but I would be willing to help as
| > much as I can.
| 
| What would be very interesting, IMO, would be either a stripped down 
| tethereal or a version of tcpdump that could act as an agent that 
| functions as a daemon and can perform captures and send them to Ethereal 
| at some master location ...

you mean something like this ?

tcpdump -i eth0 -s1514 -w - | ssh USER@REMOTEHOST "( ethereal -knSli - )"

it would be cool to have a possibility for server initiated capturing rather
than my above example which does client initiated capturing;

/hannes