On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 09:17:46AM -0800, Jay Dombrowski wrote:
> I dont see any questions on faq about support for pocket pc.
>
> Did I miss it or is there not much interest?
Well, perhaps we should add a new item to the FAQ:
Q: Does Ethereal work on Windows CE-based machines such as
Pocket PCs?
A: No:
o There is not yet a version of WinPcap that supports
Windows CE, so Ethereal wouldn't be able to capture
packets;
o GTK+ for Windows might not work on Windows CE, in which
case Ethereal wouldn't be able to have a GUI;
o the user interface for Ethereal is one that's appropriate
for machines with a "full-sized" screen - the interface
appropriate to a handheld machine might be considerably
different for one appropriate to a desktop or notebook
computer.
There *does* exist a sniffer that's intended for handhelds, Mognet:
http://www.chocobospore.org/projects/mognet/
although, given the lack of a WinPcap for Windows CE, the lack of any
known way in NDIS to do "monitor mode" on wireless cards, and the
possible lack of jpcap for Win32, it probably requires your handheld to
be running Linux.
