1.4.1       General Configuration

 

Select 'General' in the tree-view to setup general configurations.

 

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Figure 3: IP-Sniffer Setup-Tool - general configuration

 

[1]     set the IP-address of the adapter which has to be sniffed (only for Windows OS,
          see the 'note' below)

[2]     setup the logging parameters (the parameters are described in chapter 1.3)

[3]     click to open a dialog for selecting the log-directory
[4]     click to edit the log-directory manually

 

Note:
 A specific adapter IP-Address can only be set for Windows OS. 
 For Linux systems the whole incoming and outgoing network traffic is captured, i.e. you have to define appropriate 'intelligent' filters to filter the traffic for a specific adapter interface. 
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


dump IP-Frames

 

if checked then the sniffed IP data are displayed in more comfortable way, as shown following


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activate logger

if checked, the sniffed IP data are logged in a log-file

 

add LF

if checked, a line feed is inserted in the log file after each log entry to improve readability