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

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 09:48:14 -0500
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 09:35:48AM -0500, John McDermott wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

What I envision, if I can ever get my act together and add more
functionality to wiretap, is to have "wiretapd"'s, or rather, remote
capturing agents that you can run on many machines and connect to via
Ethereal. (or they could be based on libpcap)

It would be nice to also make a service for this on NT, but I
don't know anything about NDIS programming to capture packets.  Ethereal
could also connect to remote RMON agents.

And of course, authentication and encryption would be necessary in
the communication between ethereal and the remote wiretap/libpcap agents.
--gilbert