Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] A first cut at capturing from multiple devices

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From: John McDermott <jjm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 11:18:32 -0600

Ashok Narayanan wrote:

> The other day I needed to capture from multiple devices, so I wrote
> up a quick program to do this
> ....
> 1) Is it useful? I have seen multiple requests for this in the past,
> so perhaps it is.

Yes!
>
> 2) It's is very UNIX-like; using mkstemp() (because &#*$ GCC on Linux
> doesn't allow me to use anything else), fork(), exec() and other
> (hopefully POSIX) calls. I have only tested it on Linux; I would
> appreciate some feedback on testing.
I do not have any dual homed hosts available to test with right now, but I have a suggestion: I know it is very *nix-centric, but an option to run the tethereals via rsh (or perhaps options for other OSs), and then collect the results would make a (rudimentary) distributed collection system. Of course, without good time synchronization, this is not too useful, but *with* good time sync this could be a big help in net troubleshooting. 

--john

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