Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Remote Capture

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From: Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 11:30:45 -0800 (PST)
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Lalit Manchanda wrote:

> Hi Experts,
> 
> Is capture/analysis of packets emanating from a remote machine is 
> possible through ethereal? If yes what I need to do for that?

While Ethereal does not currently support remote capture agents, people 
are thinking about this topic and possibly working on it.

However, you can capture using tcpdump and then analyse on a remote 
machine, and you can use, I think, rsh like tricks. 

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]richardsharpe.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com