Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Idea for ethereal

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From: "Ronnie Sahlberg" <ronnie_sahlberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 14:42:32 +1000
It is part of the ethereal gui.

Run ethereal locally on your desktop,  when starting a capture type in
rpcap://10.1.2.3/eth0
or something similar where you select which interface to capture from.
the capture will then be performed on the remote host 10.1.2.3 on that hosts
interface eth0 and the pacekts will be transferred across the entwork to
your ethereal session as if you were capturing locally.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Lafontaine"
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Idea for ethereal


> Thanks,  I kinda already have a tool that does it.  Just throwing out an
> idea.  Anyone can run remote captures,  it's just handier to have it
> part of the ethereal GUI.
>
> Don.
>
> Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:
>
> >1, Goto winpcap website.
> >
> >2, download the rpcap.exe daemon
> >
> >3, do remote captures.
> >
> >----- Original Message ----- 
> >From: "Don Lafontaine"
> >Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 2:11 PM
> >Subject: [Ethereal-dev] Idea for ethereal
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>Hi folks
> >>
> >>It would be a real handy addition to add client/server capture
> >>functionality to ethereal.
> >>
> >>Write a small footprint capture daemon/service that can be started by a
> >>remote ethereal client.  It captures packets until told to stop.  At
> >>that point, the client (ethereal) downloads the captured data and
> >>presents it for the user to peruse.  This daemon/service will remain
> >>dormant until called into service,  it needs to use as little resources
> >>as possible when not in use.  One little form can list all the available
> >>daemon/services and the user can click one or more. If more than one are
> >>chosen,  ethereal can be made to match up the packets so you can see
> >>both sides of the conversations from each side of the wire. This will
> >>give you latency/delay/drops if you match them up properly.
> >>
> >>Just an idle thought,  what do you think?
> >>
> >>Don Lafontaine
> >>
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