[ILUG] Ethereal

Kenn Humborg kenn at bluetree.ie
Wed Mar 23 12:21:04 GMT 2005


> On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 10:01:34AM -0000, Kenn Humborg wrote:
> > > Of course you need to have tap/tun and bridging built into your kernel
> > > (or loaded as a module), but you should then have a tap you can sniff
> > > away as a non-root user that sees all traffic on eth0.
> >
> > Can you send packets via tap0 as well?  And if you do, do those
> > packets go on the wire via eth0 and _also_ get seen by the host
> > itself?
> >
> > If so, that might simplify the running of VAX emulators with
> > networking :-)
>
>
> I use vde to simplify networking installs done under qemu.
>
> http://vde.sourceforge.net/

Looks interesting.  Thanks.

Later,
Kenn




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