Thursday, November 03, 2005

ethereal network sniffer

Ethereal is a programm that listens to the network traffic.
There are capture filters for example:
host 192.168.0.1
to see all the traffic comming and going to that host.
Attention, capture filters are different from display filters: an example of a display filter is
http
You'll see only the http traffic --> cool! you can see the user agent, the get requests and the sites visited by a particular host.
After capturing network trafic, you can save the result to a cap file.

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