XP took me about 35 to 40 minutes to install on a PIII-600Mhz from CD, with SP3 prepatched. I don't really want to start the OS war again as I don't like windows any more than the rest of you. My point was... There's more than one way to skin a cat (er sniffer) Luke
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Owen DeLong Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 12:07 PM To: Luke Starrett; 'Austad, Jay'; nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: Distributed sniffer products
OK... I'll leave the XP thing al0wned.
Understood... It was a quick (and dirty) solution.
How was that any quicker than the same thing running on Linux? (hint: XP install time on P4/1.6Ghz/512MB -> ~2 hours RH8.0 install time on same machine -> ~30 minutes)
As to the linux solution, why would you bother with VNC rather than just ssh. Pull the libpcap file back to a local desktop for analysis in ethereal.
SSH works, but it's sometimes nice to have a persistent session that I can pick back up later (or from a different PC).
That's what screen is for. :-)
Luke
Owen