Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] stream from file?

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 11:38:30 -0700
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 12:21:36PM -0400, Frank Sweetser wrote:
> We've got a setup where one box is doing a capture with tcpdump -w -, and
> streaming it out to a file on a different box for analysis.  Right now,
> once the file is opened, you have to keep hitting refresh to update, and
> it complains that a packet got cut off (which is true).

Try doing a capture with the "capture device" being

	rsh {the other box} tcpdump -w -

or something such as that (perhaps using "sudo", if necessary to run
tcpdump as root).