Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] capturing traffic on multiple vlans

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 01:18:28 -0800
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 04:31:17PM -0800, Tamhankar, Arundhati wrote:
> Thanks a lot for your help. Ya, I guess an additional ethreal module may be
> required for multiple vlan capture. 

Ethereal modules (in the sense of code in Ethereal) don't do capture -
Ethereal relies on libpcap to do packet capturing, and libpcap depends
on the native packet capture mechanism.