Re: Capturing X Traffic using ethreal

2010-07-14 Thread James Cloos
PH == Peter Harris phar...@opentext.com writes: PH Also, make sure you're running wireshark as root (so it has PH permission to sniff traffic). Modern version of wireshark use a setuid helper to do the sniffing; they now recommend against running the gui or tui apps as root. -JimC -- James

Capturing X Traffic using ethreal

2010-07-13 Thread sami md
Hi All, Is it possible to capture X protocol traffic using ethreal, The display N listens and accepts connections on TCP port 6000+N, how to capture this traffic on ethreal? Regards Sami ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives:

Re: Capturing X Traffic using ethreal

2010-07-13 Thread Peter Harris
On 2010-07-13 09:14, sami md wrote: Is it possible to capture X protocol traffic using ethreal, Yes, although ethereal is deprecated in favour of wireshark. The display N listens and accepts connections on TCP port 6000+N, how to capture this traffic on ethreal? Many distros disable TCP

Re: Capturing X Traffic using ethreal

2010-07-13 Thread Peter Hutterer
On 13/07/10 23:14 , sami md wrote: Hi All, Is it possible to capture X protocol traffic using ethreal, The display N listens and accepts connections on TCP port 6000+N, how to capture this traffic on ethreal? depending on what you want to do with this data, you may find xscope or xmond