[61706] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Distributed sniffer products
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Sep 3 15:22:45 2003
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 12:07:26 -0700
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
To: Luke Starrett <lstarrett@nc.rr.com>,
"'Austad, Jay'" <JAustad@temgweb.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <004c01c3724e$4a4a1350$9aae6b80@lstarretwinxp>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>> OK... I'll leave the XP thing al0wned.
>
> Understood... It was a quick (and dirty) solution.
>
How was that any quicker than the same thing running on Linux?
(hint: XP install time on P4/1.6Ghz/512MB -> ~2 hours
RH8.0 install time on same machine -> ~30 minutes)
>> As to the linux solution, why would you bother with VNC
>> rather than just ssh. Pull the libpcap file back to a local
>> desktop for analysis in
>> ethereal.
>
> SSH works, but it's sometimes nice to have a persistent session that I
> can pick back up later (or from a different PC).
>
That's what screen is for. :-)
> Luke
>
Owen
