Re: Portable Ethereal

Portable Firefox is an installation of Firefox that can be completely
installed on a USB memory key, and just plugged into a machine and
used (without having to install it on the local machine). I would
assume that Portable Ethereal is the same thing. It's an interesting idea.

-Ashok

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 12:35:09PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> Eubanks, Paul wrote:
> >Lately I?ve been getting into using portable applications.  Many 
> >open-source programs have had portable versions made (firefox, vlc, open 
> >office, etc?).
> 
> Err, umm, what does the word "portable" mean in this context?
> 
> The meanings I know of are:
> 
> 	1) "portable" in the sense of running on multiple operating systems 
> 	- Wireshark is already portable in that sense;
> 
> 	2) "portable" in the sense of running on small handheld devices - it 
> doesn't run on Windows CE, although there is a WinPcap for Windows CE 
> linked to from the WinPcap site:
> 
> 		http://www.winpcap.org/install/default.htm
> 
> 	   (scroll to the bottom), and it might be possible to make it work, 
> and people have, in the past, built versions of Ethereal for the 
> Linux-based Sharp Zaurus:
> 
> 		http://www.secdev.org/zaurus/zethereal.html
> 
> 	   with UI changes to make it fit better on a handheld.
> 
> It sounds as if you might be using it in a third sense - distributing 
> apps on a CD-ROM in a form that supports running it from the CD-ROM 
> without having to install anything on the machine.  Is that the case?
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