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Re: Monitoring Net Traffic From the Console or Another Comptuer



On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 11:16:19PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
 
> Is there any program (I couldn't find one) that I can run on this 
> computer, via SSH, that will give me packet info I can scan in the same 
> way I do with Wireshark when I've got X on a system?
> 
> And if that doesn't work, is there a way to get Wireshark to read what 
> goes between other NICs?
> 
> The workstation is the only computer on the LAN with X, so I can't run 
> Wireshark on any server or firewall system.
> 

Why not put wireshark on the target box, set up ssh with X-forwarding,
run wireshark on the server from the workstation via xterm sshing to the
target box?  It will run on the server but display on the workstation.

Doug.


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