Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal, Analyzer, PGPnet VPN, and Windows ME OS

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From: "Fulvio Risso" <risso@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 10:16:26 +0200
In case of VPN packets (with encription and so on) there's only one way to
see the payload: by capturing the packet before they are sent to the VPN
virtual adapter.

	fulvio

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> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 09:33
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> Subject: RE: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal, Analyzer, PGPnet VPN, and
> Windows ME OS
>
>
> > We can investigate why PGP (and some other products) conflicts
> with WinPcap;
> > however:
> > - this has no value for research purposes (no publications)
> > - we get no money for that
>
> I have the experience that capturing on the same machine as the one which
> is involved in the traffic you're capturing has it's limitations. Chances
> are you're going to lose packets in the capture, especially if you do a
> "scrolling" capture. On a separate machine there's a bigger chance
> everything will be alright.
>
> --
> Andreas Sikkema
> andreas.sikkema@xxxxxxxxxxx
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