Wireshark and VMware (Gerald Combs) (p)

Gerald Combs, creator of Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) and Director of Open Source Projects at CACE Technologies, talks with Ron about capturing traffic in a virtual environment, such as VMware Workstation'', '' Fusion and Server platforms. Not for the faint of heart'', '' Gerald explains the VMnet interface and issues in packet capture. Gerald introduces VMnet Sniffer or Vnet Sniffer utilities and warns of their limitations and how the OS affects the capture process.