Enrico Scholz wrote:
Steve Dickson <SteveD redhat com> writes:tshark (the non-gui version of wireshark) should be installed by default with the option installed the gui (as it was in FC6) and then make tcpdump the optional install since at this point its pretty much brain deadIt's perhaps because of | $ rpm -q --qf '%{NAME} \t%{SIZE}\n' tcpdump wireshark | tcpdump 948021 | wireshark 31040958 | | $ rpm -qR wireshark | wc -l | 41 | $ rpm -qR tcpdump | wc -l | 15 ?
hmm... I'm must be missing your point because how is the size of a package determine how useful a packages is? The reason tcpdump is so small is because there is nothing there... the reason its so useless when debugging modern day network protocols... steved.