Ethereal-dev: RE: [ethereal-dev] packet capture from switches and other RMON devices

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From: John McDermott <jjm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 May 99 07:38:13 
--- On Wed, 12 May 1999 18:12:14 +0900  Richard Sharpe <sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>during a conversation with someone the other day, the suggestion was made
>that some RMON capable devices allow you to do packet capture. 
>
>Is this true? 

Yes.  This is a big feature of RMON.  In fact, the protocol is farily clever 
allowing sort of multiple virtual views of the capturing device.

>
>If so, it would make a useful feature for wiretap? Allow people to view
>packets on the other side of a switch etc ...

One issue is security.  We'd probably have to add some sort of authentication 
so the average user couldn't connect.  We can sort of do remote capture now, 
although it is somewhat of a bandwitdh hog, by displaying the capture on a 
different X server.

>
>

--john

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