Title: capturing a remote interface
Hi I wrote before about this. I'm trying to monitor a remote interface from my workstation. I was using a crossover cable to test this first. The remote interface didn't appear in the drop down list, so it was suggested that I use the rpcap utility but I can't get it to work right. Thanks for any help you can give. Here's what's happening:
I tried to use rpcap to capture the packets to and from the remote nic, but I must be doing something wrong. I was using the syntax
rpcap://10.11.12.13/adaptername.
What I typed specifically was
rpcapd://172.16.52.212/3Com EtherLink PCI: \Device\NPF_{C5533B45-4272-4036-8610-369AD6E69036}.
When I did this I got
Press CTRL + C to stop the server...
I also tried
rpcapd://172.16.52.212/3Com EtherLink PCI.
I got the same result. Nothing appears to be happening. I tried writing the output to a file and it didn't write the file.
Since these adapter names appeared in the Ethereal Capture Options Interface drop down list I assumed that one of these was the name of the adapter; is this correct or is the adapter name obtained in some other way?
What else might I be doing wrong?
Thanks for your help.
Jeff
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From: Silverstein, Jeffrey
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 12:08 PM
To: 'ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: can't get ethereal to see another nic in capture drop down list
Hi, I'm testing out Ethereal on Windows XP by connecting 2 machines with a crossover cable. I have installed Ethereal on both machines. When I look at the list of interfaces in the "Interface:" field in the dialog box popped up by "Capture->Start", all I can see is the local interface. When I try to capture the other interface by entering the IP or the MAC address, Ethereal gives me an error. This happens no matter which machine I do this from. What do I need to do to get both interfaces to appear in the dialog box?
Thanks,
Jeff