Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Run Ethereal as a Windows Service

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Chris Alton wrote:

> Is there anyway to have ethereal or tethereal run as a windows service 
> when the computer starts up? It would be a lot easier on me to have it 
> do that than to have to restart it everytime I reboot the computer.
>
> If it can't run as a windows service can somebody point me to a 
> sniffer than can sniff packets and log it to a file that can be viewed 
> by ethereal?
A service is only required if you need to run Ethereal/Tethereal  while 
no user is logged in. The biggest disadvantage is, that you can't get 
visual output from a service.

If you don't need this, why not simply put it in Autostart, which might 
be a far better idea.

But be warned that Ethereal is crashing if it's running out of memory. 
So it's probably not a good idea to use Ethereal as a monitoring tool, 
see: http://wiki.ethereal.com/NetworkTroubleshooting_2fOverview

You may try tcpdump/WinDump, but I've never used it myself.

Regards, ULFL