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Using Ethereal <strong>to</strong> inspect <strong>fw</strong> moni<strong>to</strong>r files<br />
Basic Ethereal usage<br />
Ethereal is a graphical <strong>to</strong>ol <strong>to</strong> analyze and capture network traffic. Ethereal is available on a wide range of<br />
platforms and operating systems including all major UNIX flavors (Solaris, Linux, *BSD …), Windows<br />
(Windows 9x, ME, NT 4, 2000 and XP), Mac OS X and many more. The screenshots in this paper were<br />
taken on a Linux machine (for Ethereal). Ethereal reads a wide variety of capture formats including the<br />
format <strong>use</strong>d by <strong>fw</strong> moni<strong>to</strong>r (which is in fact the same format as snoop). This means you can simply<br />
open a <strong>fw</strong> moni<strong>to</strong>r file in Ethereal:<br />
Figure 55: Ethereal – main window<br />
<strong>How</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>use</strong> <strong>fw</strong> moni<strong>to</strong>r Page 43 of 70<br />
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