Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Automation of Ethereal

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:26:15 -0700
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:19:25AM -0500, Munshi, Shahid K. (Manpower Contract) wrote:
> Is there any way I can open Etherreal from Python and start and stop
> capturing network packets in Windows 2000 ?

There's no way, from outside Ethereal, to force it to stop capturing
packets.

The only way to start it would be to use whatever mechanisms in Python,
if any, can start a process running with a particular program; it could
be run with the "-k" flag, and other flags such as "-i" to specify the
interface on which to capture packets.