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Re: Network sniffing tools - Ethereal
- To: Daniel Feiglin <dilogsys(at-nospam)inter.net.il>
- Subject: Re: Network sniffing tools - Ethereal
- From: Ariel Biener <ariel(at-nospam)fireball.tau.ac.il>
- Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 21:39:06 +0300 (IDT)
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On Wed, 16 May 2001, Daniel Feiglin wrote:
Without too much thinking, strace -f ethereal , redirect the output with
tee to a file as well, and then change the config. Look in the strace
output file, and you'll see what files it accesses.
--Ariel
> Hello!
>
> Last week there was a discussion about network sniffing tools. One mentioned was
> ethereal, which is a nice alternative to the venerable tcpdump.
>
> I got it going OK, but it has a silly default of sampling ALL protocols. After
> labouriously switching them all off, but for those I wanted, I found next time
> around, that my "setup" was not saved anywhere.
>
> Does anyone know where Ethereal puts its configuration/setup files? Maybe
> hacking them might help.
>
> (I have searched for *ethereal* in /etc and /usr - nothing helpful.)
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Daniel Feiglin
>
>
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