RE: Distributed sniffer products

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

> > 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