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Re: Network sniffing tools - Ethereal



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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