Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Capturing from multiple interfaces [skin the cat another way]
Some time back I wrote a utility called "multicap" that runs multiple
instances of Tethereal and captures packets on multiple interfaces,
then merges the packets. Is this something that you can use?
-Ashok
> Folks,
>
> I have eight LANs which I monitor at once. Each LAN uses a Cisco Catalyst
> switch, and has a monitoring port to allow me to see all of the traffic on
> the switch. The monitoring ports on the switches are up linked to another
> switch which acts as an aggregator. This allows me to monitor all traffic
> on all LANs.
>
> Now I have a similar smaller problem, which is to monitor two LANs at the
> same time.
>
> Does anyone know of an Ethernet card which has two interfaces, but which
> presents itself as one interface (It would be nice of each port still had
> it's own MAC address). This way I can still select the interface(s).
>
> I'm running Linux, but I do not want to capture on "Any" interface, as
> described in previous postings.
>
> Incidentally, how do I use this "Any" feature ?
>
>
> Many thanks
>
> john
>
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Ashok Narayanan
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