["Jason Isaac" <JasonIsaac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can sort of do that now. 

 

I have a Linux box that sniffs some of our routers on a regular basis.  I setup a cron job to run a script that uses tethereal to sniff and dump to a file.  When something interesting happens I can open the sniff files with ethereal and take a look.  Right now, I open it on the same system, but I would think that I could transfer the sniff file to another system and open it with ethereal there.

 

Jason

 

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From: ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex R
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 10:55 AM
To: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Ethereal-users] Server Client Model

 

Hello,

I have recently looked at ethereal and found it a great sniffer. I think that having ethereal in a server client model would greatly benefit people. The reason for this is simple. First of all a lot of people use old linux boxes as a router and no run X on them. The same goes for servers. Rarely do people run remote sessions of X. A nice example of a program that works in a client server model is nessus. The nessusd can be installed on any POSIX OS. Then there is a client that can then be used to connect to any nessus server.

-Alex