[Peep-develop] Re: peep

[Michael G. <mg...@ee...>]

  Hiya.

On Mon, Oct 21 @ 18:23, David Norman wrote:
> I've been reading some of the documentation on peep. I've seen comments
> about it parsing logfiles of client machines in most of the
> documentation, however I actually have a majority of win2k machines in
> my collection.

  The client library is written entirely in perl, so it should be possible
to run it under win2k. We haven't had anyone try yet, unfortunately, so
maybe you can give us a hand in that regard :)

> I read something about a tcpdump implementation. Since I have win2k
> machines that wouldn't run the client software, is the tcpdump method
> actually implemented so I could put a machine in the line, perhaps even
> with a transparent network interface? I can RTFM a link if I just
> missed it somewhere.

  The tcpdump is just a wrapper around the existing tcpdump. The
client library, however, is very versatile and it's rather easy to
create your own clients.  Collin has a nice step-by-step example on
how to create clients and once you're familiar with the library, it
should only take you about 30 min or so to create a basic client.
The fun thing about creating clients is that you get to arbitrarily
decide on how you want the representation to sound.

  We're gonna meet this wed to finish up the client-side. So hopefully,
we'll have the release out by early next week.

            Regards,

                     -- Mike

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