Distributed sniffer products

Wed Sep 3 19:07:26 UTC 2003

>> 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