Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Is it possible to take traces from different interfaces with ethereal...

[David Meagher <dmeagher@xxxxxxxxx>]

depending on your network setup, you could be able to mirror the vlans
onto one interface - and snoop that remotely

On 13/10/05, Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> Ethereal user support <ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb am 13.10.05 15:53:31:
> >
> > At the moment we are using port spanning on cisco switches to take traces from different Vlans.
> >
> > Is it somehow possible to sniff more than one physical interfaces with ethereal with the tools avalible on Unix
> >
> > I know that we have to choose the ethernet-interface? So are there any suggestions to this.I basically want to take traces from different phsical interfaces.
> >
> > I am using Solaris and I just want you guys to share your experiences..
> >
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> One instance of Ethereal can only capture data from one physical interface at a time (except for the "any" interface on linux, which captures from all available interfaces at once).
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> You can start several Ethereal instances and merge the results later. However, this isn't  very comfortable ...
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> Regards, ULFL
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