Re: Capturing Packets -- Ethereal

[Chris Boyd <cboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 15:31 -0800, Al Sparks wrote:
> > > From: Milton Calnek <milton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 12:50:47 PM
> > Subject: Re:  Capturing Packets -- Ethereal
> > 
> > The thing to do is to install wireshark on the system without X.
> > 
> > Then from a machine with X:
> > ssh -Xf user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wireshark
> 
> Yours is the coolest answer, though the others were also helpful.

It's cool, but you have to contend with the traffic generated by the ssh
and X session overhead in your display and/or captured data, or exclude
the IP address of the X server from display.  This may or may not be an
issue for you.

--Chris

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