Johnson, Clint wrote:
> I do not have any UNIX servers that run GUI's I prefer to keep them
> lean. Do I need a GUI to run ethereal
Yes. You don't need the GUI to be on the machine on which you're running
Ethereal, however.
> or is there a command line option
No, but there's a command-line packet capture and analysis program that
uses the same dissectors as Ethereal - Tethereal, which comes with
Ethereal. (It's similar to tcpdump and snoop.)
> or a client I can put on my PC that will interact with Ethereal.
If you have an X server on your PC - and you have the X client libraries
(including GTK+) installed on your UNIX server - you can set the DISPLAY
environment variable on your UNIX server to refer to your PC's X server,
and make Ethereal display on your PC.
If your PC is running a UN*X (Linux, BSD, Solaris), it probably already
has an X server for the GUI.
If it's running Windows, there are X servers available, e.g. Hummingbird's
Exceed:
http://connectivity.hummingbird.com/products/nc/exceed/index.html