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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Idea for ethereal

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From: Tim Potter <tpot@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 14:48:26 +1000
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 02:42:32PM +1000, Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:

> It is part of the ethereal gui.
> 
> Run ethereal locally on your desktop,  when starting a capture type in
> rpcap://10.1.2.3/eth0
> or something similar where you select which interface to capture from.
> the capture will then be performed on the remote host 10.1.2.3 on that hosts
> interface eth0 and the pacekts will be transferred across the entwork to
> your ethereal session as if you were capturing locally.

Neat!  It's even available for Linux - http://rpcap.sourceforge.net/

From Ronnie's first mail I thought it might only be available for 
Windows.


Tim.

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