[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 12:01:56AM +0800, darren wrote:
> Can ethereal work on a Ipaq + Linux?

It could, in theory, work if

	1) you have X on the Ipaq or you've linked Ethereal with a
	   "frame buffer" version of GTK+ (but Ethereal currently uses
	   GTK+ 1.2, and I don't know if there's a frame-buffer version
	   of that) and that version supports the Ipaq's frame buffer;

	2) you have enough memory on the Ipaq to store the Ethereal
	   binary and any shared libraries it needs (as well as
	   configuration files);

	3) libpcap supports whatever networking device you have on the
	   Ipaq.

I don't know whether any of those are the case or not.

However, there's no guarantee that you have enough screen real estate to
make Ethereal *useful*.  It may be that a different GUI design would be
what you want on a handheld.

Mognet:

	http://www.chocobospore.org/projects/mognet/

claims to have "space-efficient presentation of information for
convenient operation on handhelds", so it might be a better choice.  (It
uses Jpcap, and saves its captures in libpcap format, so you can feed
them to programs such as tcpdump, Ethereal, etc..)

I have never used any of them, and cannot give any advice on their use.