Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Sniffing in a switched network - Taps or Spans

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:21:43 -0700
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 10:08:57PM +1000, Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:
> From: "Dolbow, Bill"
> ...
> > 1. If I tap my aggregation points (firewalls, Content switches, etc)
> > can ethereal on RedHat ES3.0 able to combine the transmit and receive
> feeds
> > into one capture?
> 
> Not with Ethereal   but the tool  MERGECAP.EXE in the ethereal distribution
> will do this for you.

Not on Red Hat, it won't - but "mergecap" will. :-)