Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal Client/Server Model

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From: Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 09:30:48 -0800 (PST)
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 donnie@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> I just joined this list, and I would like to help with the development of
> ethereal.  I work for a very large corporation, and for our network, we
> like to put in place sniffers to check certain connections.  We currently
> use Sniffer Distributed as our sniffer software.  The main ability of that
> software that we like is how it can be used as a client/server.  Thus
> allowing for us to place a sniffer on remote locations then connect to
> that sniffer and analyze the packets.
> 
> I was wondering, if anyone would be interested in helping to implement
> this type of client/server model for ethereal?  I am not extremely
> familiar with the code for ethereal, but I would be willing to help as
> much as I can.

What would be very interesting, IMO, would be either a stripped down 
tethereal or a version of tcpdump that could act as an agent that 
functions as a daemon and can perform captures and send them to Ethereal 
at some master location ...

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]richardsharpe.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com