I am interested in automation of tethereal in windows 2000.
Your help will be appreciated...
Shahid Munshi
-----Original Message-----
From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 1:58 PM
To: Paul Hoffman / VPNC
Cc: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx; Munshi, Shahid K. (Manpower Contract)
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Automation of Ethereal
On Sep 11, 2003, at 9:44 AM, Paul Hoffman / VPNC wrote:
> 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.
On Windows? In UNIX, you can cleanly stop tethereal by sending it
SIGTERM, but that mechanism isn't available in Windows - and the person
who asked the question is running on Windows.