RE: Portable Ethereal

" 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?"

Yes.  Or USB drive, etc...  I should have said "stand-alone" perhaps?
Something you don't have to install on the target machine in order to
run.  I'm aiming this at windows machines, but it would be nice to be
able to do this on *nix machines as well.  

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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Guy Harris
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 3:35 PM
To: Ethereal development
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Portable Ethereal

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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