[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

andy.litchfield@xxxxxx wrote:

> I need to monitor four LANs at the same physical location so I intend to 
> buy one PC with four Ethernet ports and to connect one Ethernet port 
> into each LAN.  Will Ethereal then be able to simultaneously capture 
> frames from each of the four LANs?

Four separate instances of Ethereal would (if there's enough CPU power, 
memory bandwidth, and disk bandwidth) be able to capture simultaneously 
to four capture files from the four LANs.

One instance of Ethereal can only capture on one adapter at a time.