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Ethereal-dev: Re: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Remote Sniffing

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Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 07:30:36 -0700
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Password-less ssh?
I just enter password when prompted.
Space?
Use tcpdump instead, with same syntax.
Ethereal wont handle fifo/pipe.
Run a stripped down ethereal with Xlib from remote sniffer to local display?

Always more than one way to do something.

On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 00:14:59 -0700 Gilad Benjamini <yaelgilad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>Interesting, but with some drawbacks
>- The remote machine must allow password-less (key based) ssh
>- The remote machine must have tethereal installed; problematic
>with a limited-space embedded system
>- The local machine cannot view capture in real time in Ethereal
>
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>From: <jaime.fournier@xxxxxxxx>
>To: ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx, yaelgilad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Date: Wed,  8 Sep 2004 07:17:32 -0700
>Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Remote Sniffing
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>Yes.
>
>ssh -l root remotesniffer tethereal -i en1 -w-|tethereal -i -
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>Your milage may vary.
>
>On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 02:43:53 -0700 Gilad Benjamini <yaelgilad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>>Hi,
>>I have Linux running on an embedded device,
>>on which I would like to sniff traffic. Rather than
>>compiling a full-blown Ethereal, I would rather
>>capture that data and send it to another PC (probably
>>though some UDP socket). The other PC would listen
>>to this socket and would interpet the packets as
>>if they were being directly sniffed.
>>
>>Doesn't look like to much work on the PC side.
>>Question is: any chance someone did anything like
>>this in the past ?
>>
>>TIA
>>
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