Q re networking, might need guru

[Bob Goodwin]

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?
>
I don't know which repo it came from but I installed etherape [in this 
FC5] and several related app's via yumex about a week ago.

Bob Goodwin