My servers had much traffic coming in from the internet so I tought I would sniff it out. I install ethereal (Open source)
 
Ethereal then proceeds to tell me it will not sniff wan adapters on nt or 2k server.
 
I was shocked. Why would they authors impose this artificial limitation, thereby stopping it from doing what it really is intended to do.
 
So here I am today, calling on any programmers, to help out we the NT admins, to look at the source, and remove this artificial limitation so we can all benefit from a free sniffer.
 
The retail sniffers cost a fortune.
 
If anyone feels up to the task please let us know!
 
 
P.S. It also is incapable of sniffing on a dialup (ppp) adapter, which I thought was odd. I noticed sniffe pro 4.5 also would not sniff dialup ppp adapter. If anyone has technical insight as to the lack of suport for pp adapters I'd like to hear about it, for curiosity sake.