[61713] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Distributed sniffer products
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Luke Starrett)
Wed Sep 3 15:46:03 2003
From: "Luke Starrett" <lstarrett@nc.rr.com>
To: "'Owen DeLong'" <owen@delong.com>,
"'Austad, Jay'" <JAustad@temgweb.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:33:08 -0700
In-Reply-To: <2147483647.1062590846@imac-en0.delong.sj.ca.us>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
XP took me about 35 to 40 minutes to install on a PIII-600Mhz from CD,
with SP3 prepatched. I don't really want to start the OS war again as I
don't like windows any more than the rest of you. My point was...
There's more than one way to skin a cat (er sniffer)
Luke
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On
> Behalf Of Owen DeLong
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 12:07 PM
> To: Luke Starrett; 'Austad, Jay'; nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: RE: Distributed sniffer products
>
>
>
> >> 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
>
