Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Is it possible to take traces from different interfaces wit

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:12:39 +0200

Ethereal user support <ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb am 13.10.05 15:53:31:
> 
> At the moment we are using port spanning on cisco switches to take traces from different Vlans. 
> 
> Is it somehow possible to sniff more than one physical interfaces with ethereal with the tools avalible on Unix 
> 
> I know that we have to choose the ethernet-interface? So are there any suggestions to this.I basically want to take traces from different phsical interfaces. 
> 
> I am using Solaris and I just want you guys to share your experiences.. 
> 

One instance of Ethereal can only capture data from one physical interface at a time (except for the "any" interface on linux, which captures from all available interfaces at once).

You can start several Ethereal instances and merge the results later. However, this isn't  very comfortable ...

Regards, ULFL
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