Re: Remote ethereal?

Hi,

Sure, you could try tethereal and have it write to a capture file. That
would be similar to tcpdump. Afterwards you read in the file wire
Ethereal (or Wireshark which is more up to date)

Thanx,
Jaap

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Andrew Ehrlich wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm using ethereal on a system in order to trace a software malfunction.
> However, ethereal significantly slows down the computer as it captures
> during the software's functions.  Otherwise though, it captures the needed
> data to find the problem.  Is there any way to either run ethereal on a
> remote machine on the same switch and capture the same data, or to make
> ethereal run in a less resource-intensive mode?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>