<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alan Gauld</b> <<a href="mailto:alan.gauld@freenet.co.uk">alan.gauld@freenet.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Ethereal is one well known<br>and powerful one, but there are others which may be simpler to<br>use. </blockquote>
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<div>Yes, with Ethereal comes a command-line version called tethereal, which I've used within Python on both Windows and Linux. It worked nicely for trafic analysis, but if you're interested only in the clear text passing through the line, I'd think of using netcat.
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<div> </div>(Sorry Alan, my previous attempt went straight to you instead of the list)<br> </div>