Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] networked reading of captures?

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 17:17:06 -0700
On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 07:14:23PM +1000, Brad Hards wrote:
> I've thought about remote capture a little, and the easiest way would seem to 
> be to use libpcap over some kind of RPC mechanism. There is actually a 
> sourceforge project to do this (http://sf.net/projects/rpcap) although it 
> appears to need a lot more work - I couldn't even get the CVS version to 
> build.

...unlike the WinPcap work, which *already* works on Windows, and will
probably work on UNIX once the WinPcap check the changes for it into the
libpcap CVS tree.  The easiest way, on platforms supporting
"pcap_open()", to do remote capture is to use "pcap_open()".