Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] can ethereal capture a special program traffic?

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From: Hansang Bae <hbae@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 19:30:11 -0500
On 10:22 PM 3/29/2006, Enjoy Life wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I've searched a while and want to find a plugin for ethereal to capture the packets of a special program, for example, only capturing firefox traffic while the same time never mind other program, but I got no answer.
>
>So I am wondering if there is such kind of plugin for ethereal?


At the TCP level, how would you determine if IE, Firefox, Lynx, or Opera made the http request?  Remember that your capturing happens *below* the application layer.  So no capturing agent will be able to see who created the packets for the stack to deliver.

hsb