Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] More questions about Ethereal

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 11:45:11 -0800 (PST)
> I may be wrong, but I believe Ethereal is a LAN analyzer only and is
> therefore not capable of monitoring ISDN, V.24, etc. interfaces.

It's not *intended* to be only a LAN analyzer; assuming the underlying
OS, and the libpcap library, cooperate, it should be able to monitor WAN
interfaces - if they cooperate, but it can't monitor them, that's a bug.