Re: Suggestion: Pcap-over-IP client support in

[rixed () happyleptic org]

-[ Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 09:56:59AM -0700, Rick Jones ]----
> What are the issues/benefits/downfalls one way or t'other between the 
> two schemes - over ssh and a specific connection - when it comes to 
> making certain that this thing forwarding captured traffic isn't simply 
> chasing its own tail forwarding captures of its forwarding of captures 
> of its fowarding of captures...

Isn't it the same problem that any person running tcpdump through a ssh
connection already routinely handle ? Ie. displaying the packets of the
ssh connection that displays the packets... Which is easily solved by
filtering ssh out. Same can be done here by the OP.

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