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 > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Milton Calnek BSc, A/Slt(Ret.) milton at calnek.com 306-717-8737 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.