Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] ERTSP: Ethereal's RemoTe Sniffing Protocol

["Gianluca Varenni" <varenni@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi.

What about the remote capture features of WinPcap? WinPcap is able to 
capture from remote machines, and the code for the remote capture runs on 
windows and Linux (I'm not sure about BSD).

More details can be found here

http://winpcap.polito.it/docs/man/html/group__remote__help.html

Have a nice day
GV





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John McDermott" <jjm@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "LEGO" <luis.ontanon@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <jjm@xxxxxxxxxx>; "Ethereal development" <ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] ERTSP: Ethereal's RemoTe Sniffing Protocol


> > > > The Idea is a protocol to have sniffing clients and a sniffing servers
> > > > communicate. Part like RTSP, and part like RTP+RTCP with
> > > > retransmissions.
> > > This sounds really cool and well thought out.  Maybe I'm missing
> > > something, though.  What about RMON? Yes, it has another filtering
> > > language and yes, it is not "real time" in the sense that Ethereal is,
> > > but
> > > mightn't it be an appropriate solution?  Then, Ethereal could
> > > inter-operate with existing probes and so forth.
> >
> > The point is to be able to use display filters on the remote probe
> > before packets are transmitted.
>
> Well, RMON does that, but it uses its own filtering language, and if we
> want true Ethereal display filters, then, of course RMON is out (unless we
> were to create a private filter MIB, I suppose...).  I just thought
> interoperability might be useful.  I'm not convinced RMON is better than
> your proposal, BTW, I just wanted to offer the thought.
>
> We discussed this in 1999/2000 so you might want to check the archives for
> that discussion, too.
>
> --john
>
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