Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal and rpcapd

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From: stefmit <stefmit@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 06:05:30 -0500
Thanks for your answer, and "yes" - I am using the local (to ethereal) winpcap 
supporting rpcapd - but I can't figure out the syntax for accessing the 
remote machine rpcap daemon ... this was basically the other part of my 
question ...

Stef

On Wednesday 03 September 2003 02:51 pm, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 3, 2003, at 12:05 PM, stefmit wrote:
> > Is there any way to run Ethereal by pointing it to a remote Win
> > machine,
> > running rpcapd?
>
> That's WinPcap's remote capture daemon?
>
> The only way to have Ethereal capture from that device is to run
> Ethereal with a version of libpcap or WinPcap that supports the rpcapd
> protocol.  Right now, you'd have to use WinPcap 3.0 or later.