LOL Ms. M......

I never understood the thought process of whoever came up with Carnivoure under current CPU speed, memory and storage space. The thought that you could capture all traffic, search it and report on it for all traffic crossing the internet within the USA is preposterous with current technology.... And that assumes that everything goes in clear... How many SSL connections are running at any given moment for traffic passing through the USA? How do they know that everyone using them is only doing their banking?

I think you'll find that what they have done is realized the futility of the system under current technological limitations and have gone to targeted eavesdropping... So you might be right, Ethereal will be the tool of choice....