Re: [Etherape-users] Capture daemon

[Juan T. <to...@ba...>]

Magnus Ullberg wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've got a suggestion for you.. what if you made a small daemon that sits on
> a host and captures the data and then you can grab that file and open it in
> Etherape later on another host?
>
> My boss is talking about getting a gigabit card and do port mirroring of all
> our switches, but for now I don't have a way to see the complete network..

This is actually pretty simple to implement, I just didn't have it as a priority
until
you just told me it should. :-)

You will save to a file using tcpdump, and then etherape will read from the
file.

Shouldn't take too long, unless I take vacations this week, which I may.

Thanks for the comment. :-)

Regards,
Juan.