Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal Client/Server Model

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 01:46:16 -0800
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 05:19:26PM -0500, donnie@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> When you start a capture in ethereal and the "capture options" window
> pops up, if we could simply enter an IP instead of a device

No, you'd probably want a separate field for remote host name.

> Mainly, I think that a version of ethereal that sent the capture_file
> structure to the client,

There is no guarantee that Ethereal would be the program involved on
*either* side of the connection (the remote machine might just be
running the rpcap daemon, and the local machine might be running
Analyzer, or snort, or tcpdump/Windump, or...), and even if they are,
there's no guarantee that the capture_file structure will remain
unchanged between releases of Ethereal, so the capture_file structure
should *not* be sent over the wire.