Wireshark · Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] tethereal vs. tcpdump

["Tinga Shilo" <tingashilo@xxxxxxxxx>]

A newbie question.

I need to do the following thing:

- Go (actually go) to a remote location

- Set up a machine there to capture packet every 6 hours, for 10 minutes (crontab probably)

- Come back a week later and pick up the results.

 

Is there any good reason to prefer tethereal over tcpdump, or vice-versa ?

 

TIA

 

P.S. All the administrative stuff, such as permissions, disk space, etc. are all

taken care off.