Hi
I'm new to ethereal and so forgive me if I'm asking a question that
has already been asked before. I have just installed ethereal-0.8.15 and
am having a little user interface problem.
What I want to do is very simple. I want to see all the network
traffic going between my PC/NT Win 2000 box and my Solaris box when I
use HTTP to access my webserver on the solaris box.
So here are a few questions ...
1. In File->Open, I want to capture the information. Why is it that
whenever I type in a file name, it complains that it is not in the
correct capture file format Ethereal understands ? How do I create
this file in the first place so that it is in the correct Ethereal
format ?
2. In the Edit->Preferences, I click on Add Expression, and choose
HTTP as my field name. It lets me choose notification, request or
response as options. I choose 'request' and it places "http.request" in
the Filter string field of the Ethernet Filters box. Is that really
what I should be doing ? Where do I specify the ip address of my
Solaris box then ? Maybe I should not be using HTTP for this
purpose ?
3. How should I modify Ethereal Preferences so that I am using the
correct network connection for this scenerio ?(As you can see I'm
a novice at networking as well!)
I think knowing the above should help me get to the next steps...
thanks in advance
Elham Chandler
Interwoven Inc.
