Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Simple Non-Capture Mode Question (Win32)

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:18:10 -0800
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 03:18:38PM -0600, Neulinger, Nathan R. wrote:
> Right, but with a capture file, it's very useful, since it can be run
> virtually anywhere.

In particular, if you have a capture file, you can use the non-capture
version of Ethereal on any Win32 system that also has GTK+ and GLib
installed (they can be installed in the same directory as Ethereal - in
fact, if those libraries aren't in your path, Ethereal works better if
they're in the same directory as it), *regardless* of whether you've
installed the driver and libraries Ethereal needs in order to capture
packets.

If, for example, you already have a program on your machine that can
capture packets, but it doesn't do as good a job as Ethereal at
dissecting some particular protocol, and Ethereal can read its capture
files, you could use Ethereal to look at that particular protocol.