Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Control many ethereal PC's?

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From: "Eric Jaakkola" <eriq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:21:07 -0600
Save the cap files to a central file server.  Just be sure to exclude
the IP address of the server your saving the cap files to.  You can use
mergecap to splice the files together.

-----Original Message-----
From: ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ulf Lamping
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 1:24 PM
To: Ethereal user support
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Control many ethereal PC's?

Karalis, Ilias wrote:

> I have many different PC's that capture different subnets. When I want

> to make a trace for a VoIP call I use at the time being 2-3 different 
> ethereal PC's.
>
> This is very difficult if it has to be done very often.
> Do you know if there is a solution to that problem?
> I could imagine a kind of control-master PC where the client ethereal 
> stations are controlled and tracers are then delivered to this master
PC.
>
That's a feature commonly known as remote capturing.

Currently, Ethereal is not well prepared to do such a job.

Although this is widely excepted to be a useful feature, please don't 
expect any improvements on this topic soon...

Regards, ULFL

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