From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2007-03-30T20:53:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Pcaplet 'lookupdev': no suitable device found

On 29 Mar 2007, at 23:45, Mike Cook wrote:
> Thanks for your quick reply, your solution worked like a charm.  I was
> following a Ruby/Pcap tutorial from Arstechnica.com and they didn't  
> make
> any mention of specifying the interface.

Unfortunately Ruby/Pcap is a very thin wrapper to the underlying  
library, which makes it a little less Rubyish than one would like -   
in particular passing in configuration strings is just ugly. Still,  
it works as advertised and is great for quick sniffing/logging tasks.

My colleague Romek and I use it extensively for our DNS work and he  
covered it very briefly as part of our RailsConf Europe presentation  
last year. Needless to say there were some baffled faces in the  
audience lol


Ellie

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