Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] I just want to know whether there has beenanyattempt to developed a web based ver

["Ronnie Sahlberg" <ronnie_sahlberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you use ethereal and winpcap under windows
you may want to look at rpcapd.exe (part of winpcap)
this allows you to do remote captures using ethereal already today and works
well in all tests i have done.

If you want to use this under Linux or unix and unix-like systems you might
want to get in touch with
the libpcap people over at www.tcpdump.org.
They might be interested if someone writes and contributes a port of the
rpcap layer to libpcap.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "naveenk"
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 9:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] I just want to know whether there has
beenanyattempt to developed a web based version of ethereal.


> vnc is not going to solve the problem because of two constraints
>  vnc will require
>      vnc client software on client side (this is a big limitation for
remote
> analysis)
>      X on server side.
>     while if we have web based ethereal both these things are not needed .
> lately i have been doing some googling and found out that if ethereal can
be
> added to browser as a plugin then pcap (or any supported file) will open
in
> browser the way pdf file opens in browser when acrobat reader plugin is
> present. This way people using any web based packet capturing software can
> analyze the capture by ethereal just by clicking the pcap(or any
supported)
> file.
>
>
>
> jjm@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > > X would probably be a LOT more appropriate as the application itself
> > > would simply be displayed on the remote systems using the same drawing
> > > methods used to draw on the local console, and without sharing the
> > > "entire desktop".  You can easily control user access to be able to
run
> > > Ethereal only.  If your clients run Unix-like systems (including Mac
OS
> > > X), you most likely already have an X server installed or run X-based
> > > apps.
> >
> > Very true.  There is also a version of VNC that displays a single
> > application.  VNC can be network intensive and/or slow depending on the
> > encoding chosen and the line speed.  That said, it is a great tool.
> >
> > > X is by no means an ideal display protocol but one of its native
> > > functions is to provide network-based GUI display.
> > >
> > > I'm not aware if there are any Browser-based X servers, though I doubt
> > > it.
> >
> > Check out http://www.jcraft.com/weirdx/ for one such Java-based X
server.
> > I have not used the applet version, personally.  It is based on
> > http://wiredx.net/services.php
> >
> > --john
> >
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