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Chirag888
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Ethereal, Packets, Network Packet, Packet analyzers
can we captured packets from a network having host working on different platform ?
ASKED: Jul 29 2009  3:41 AM GMT
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BlankReg
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By different platform, I think you mean a different operating system, or different hardware ?

The answer is yes, the capture is not dependant on the hardware or OS you are using, just that you are on the same network segment as the system you are trying to capture the traffic from. This means that you need to either confiure the switch to mirror all the traffic from that host to your capture machine, or use a hub, that does the same thing.

If you meant sometihng else, please clarify,and I will try to answer it again.
Last Answered: Jul 29 2009  6:12 AM GMT by BlankReg   11280 pts.
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Labnuke99   26290 pts.  |   Jul 29 2009  11:45AM GMT

Ethereal has been superseded by Wireshark. It can run on multiple platforms - Windows, Linux, MAC, Solaris.

Get some excellent tutorials from Wireshark University. I have discussed this in some of my blog postings.

Wireshark quickstart tutorial - learn to capture network traffic
Using Wireshark to analyze a bot infected host
Master key tasks for network troubleshooting - Chappell University Online Seminars

Please post again if you need more information.

 

BlankReg   11280 pts.  |   Jul 30 2009  7:49AM GMT

It’s just a name change, and you still find it if you search for Ethereal.

 

KevinBeaver   7610 pts.  |   Jul 30 2009  4:50PM GMT

If you end up doing a lot of work with a network analyzer or get frustrated with the freebies out there you should check out commercial products such as CommView or OmniPeek. They’re *much* easier to use for beginners and really help take the pain out of the network analysis process.

 
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