Re: [Ethereal-users] GUI

[Andrew Hood <ajhood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:
> 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

Or cygwin if you don't like the price tag.


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