[CentOS] Capturing Packets -- Ethereal
Milton Calnek
milton at calnek.com
Wed Jan 16 21:50:47 UTC 2008
The thing to do is to install wireshark on the system without X.
Then from a machine with X:
ssh -Xf user at macine.without.x wireshark
Al Sparks wrote:
> This may be off topic, but I think my ethereal question might be simple enough.
>
> I am presently compiling ethereal on a CentOS platform to check it out.
>
> But the packets I want to monitor are actually on a different CentOS platform, and I'd rather not install Ethereal on it, if for no other reason I don't have X-Windows installed on that platform.
>
> My question is, can I monitor/write packets to a file on the more remote machine, and then analyze the packets on another machine using my ethereal SW?
>
> Can I sniff the packets on the remote w/o a full install of ethereal?
> === Al
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