Bartus, Tommy E wrote:
I use your product at home quite often, and I was wandering if you will
come up with a remote capture agent.
Probably not.
We'll probably rely on somebody else to do that; we don't do much if any
work ourselves on capture, we leave that up to:
on UN*X, the libpcap developers and the developers of the OS and driver
code that libpcap uses;
on Windows, the WinPcap developers and the development of the OS and
driver code that WinPcap uses.
The WinPcap developers have been working on an extension to
libpcap/WinPcap to communicate with a remote capture agent, and on a
remote capture agent. That stuff isn't in libpcap at this point. The
code isn't, as far as I know, Windows-dependent.
See
http://winpcap.polito.it/docs/man/html/group__remote__help.html
for some information on it.
I think that's usable from current versions of Ethereal, if your WinPcap
has the remote capture stuff (or if you've built a version of libpcap
with it and Ethereal's using it) - it's not as friendly as one might
like, as I think you'd have to enter something such as
"rpcap://hostname/device" to capture on the device named "device" on the
host named "hostname", but I think it'd work. At some point a more
convenient GUI for that might be added.