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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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Owen DeLong > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 12:07 PM > To: Luke Starrett; 'Austad, Jay'; [email protected] > 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 >
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