Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Howto see Conversations without saving the packets

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 00:36:04 +0200
Ali BASEL wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I want to use ethereal as an IP accounting monitor for all of our
> servers (Ethereal will listen all the packets to/from our servers)
> I need only the live info of the Conversations section on the
> Statistics menu.
> But. since Ethreal does write all the packets into a file on the disk,
> this slows down that process.
>
> Is that possible to have this info using only RAM.

Ethereal isn't meant as a monitoring tool, see
http://wiki.ethereal.com/NetworkTroubleshooting_2fOverview for an overview.

Regards, ULFL