Q re networking, might need guru
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu May 18 14:43:18 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 09:28, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 07:31, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >
> >> And I did have yumex search for etherape, but it came up empty. I
> >> needed a network analyzer that worked, and now I have nothing but
> >> tcpdump and tethereal, neither of which shows me what I need to know.
> >
> > tethereal? If you 'yum install ethereal-gnome' you should get
> > the GUI ethereal which is pretty nice to use. Give it an
> > expression like you would with tcpdump to limit the capture
> > to what you want to see. Or you can use tcpdump -w and
> > an appropriate -s snaplength to capture to a file, then
> > analyze it with ethereal, even on a different machine.
>
> Tell that to the packagers. I'd first had 'yum install ethereal', but
> that didn't get me ethereal,it got me tethereal for some unknown
> reason. tethereal looks like tcpdump as near as I can tell. AFAIKS this
> whole networking thing is pretty badly fubar, it took me about 10 days
> just to make my broadcom radio work.
>
> So where can I find an rpm of etherape that will run on FC5?
Did you try 'yum install ethereal-gnome'? After that, it should
show up in the applications/internet menu or you can start it
with the 'ethereal' command.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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