Re: [Ethereal-users] GUI

["Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Johnson, Clint wrote:
> I do not have any UNIX servers that run GUI's I prefer to keep them
> lean. Do I need a GUI to run ethereal

Yes.  You don't need the GUI to be on the machine on which you're running
Ethereal, however.

> or is there a command line option

No, but there's a command-line packet capture and analysis program that
uses the same dissectors as Ethereal - Tethereal, which comes with
Ethereal.  (It's similar to tcpdump and snoop.)

> or a client I can put on my PC that will interact with Ethereal.

If you have an X server on your PC - and you have the X client libraries
(including GTK+) installed on your UNIX server - you can set the DISPLAY
environment variable on your UNIX server to refer to your PC's X server,
and make Ethereal display on your PC.

If your PC is running a UN*X (Linux, BSD, Solaris), it probably already
has an X server for the GUI.

If it's running Windows, there are X servers available, e.g. Hummingbird's
Exceed:

    http://connectivity.hummingbird.com/products/nc/exceed/index.html