[Paul Hoffman / VPNC <paul.hoffman@xxxxxxxx>]

At 9:26 AM -0700 9/11/03, Guy Harris wrote:
> 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.

But there is a way with tethereal: simply stop the program. You 
should be able to pipe the tethereal output to a file and, based on 
the size or contents of the file, stop tethereal from another 
process. I know you can do this in Perl; it seems likely you can do 
it in Python.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium