RE: [Ethereal-users] Run Ethereal as a Windows Service

["Chris Alton" <Chris.Alton@xxxxxxx>]

Having it run with no user logged on is exactly what I need. I have a server machine that I want to start sniffing packets as soon as the computer starts up. I want the exact functionality that tethereal has except I want it with a non-visual interface. i.e. no command window displayed. I want to be able to pass the filters and other parameters to it and have it start logging when the computer starts.


-----Original Message-----
From: ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Ulf Lamping
Sent: Sun 8/7/2005 2:55 PM
To: Ethereal user support
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Run Ethereal as a Windows Service
 
Chris Alton wrote:

> Is there anyway to have ethereal or tethereal run as a windows service 
> when the computer starts up? It would be a lot easier on me to have it 
> do that than to have to restart it everytime I reboot the computer.
>
> If it can't run as a windows service can somebody point me to a 
> sniffer than can sniff packets and log it to a file that can be viewed 
> by ethereal?
>
A service is only required if you need to run Ethereal/Tethereal  while 
no user is logged in. The biggest disadvantage is, that you can't get 
visual output from a service.

If you don't need this, why not simply put it in Autostart, which might 
be a far better idea.

But be warned that Ethereal is crashing if it's running out of memory. 
So it's probably not a good idea to use Ethereal as a monitoring tool, 
see: http://wiki.ethereal.com/NetworkTroubleshooting_2fOverview

You may try tcpdump/WinDump, but I've never used it myself.

Regards, ULFL

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