On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 07:14:23PM +1000, Brad Hards wrote: > I've thought about remote capture a little, and the easiest way would seem to > be to use libpcap over some kind of RPC mechanism. There is actually a > sourceforge project to do this (http://sf.net/projects/rpcap) although it > appears to need a lot more work - I couldn't even get the CVS version to > build.
...unlike the WinPcap work, which *already* works on Windows, and will probably work on UNIX once the WinPcap check the changes for it into the libpcap CVS tree. The easiest way, on platforms supporting "pcap_open()", to do remote capture is to use "pcap_open()".