Can't start ethereal

[Manuel Arostegui Ramirez]

--- Matthew Galgoci <mgalgoci at redhat.com> escribió: >
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote:
> 
> > --- Matthew Galgoci <mgalgoci at redhat.com>
> escribió: >
> > > > [kens at KENS02L kens]$ su
> > > > > Password:
> > > > > [root at KENS02L kens]# rpm -qa ethereal
> > > > > ethereal-0.10.3-0.90.1
> > > > > [root at KENS02L kens]# man ethereal
> > > > > No manual entry for ethereal
> > > > > [root at KENS02L kens]# ethereal
> > > > > bash: ethereal: command not found
> > > > > [root at KENS02L kens]#
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > Ethereal is the gui for tcpdump, do you have
> it?
> > > 
> > > No, it isn't.
> > 
> > Look at this web:
> > http://www.firetower.com/forum/tcpdump.html
> > This is the exactly sentence where I found it.
> > "Be sure to try Ethereal, a GUI interface to
> tcpdump
> > which gives you very sexy decodes of tcpdump
> traffic."
> 
> tcpdump and ethereal are not dependent on eachother
> or pachaged with eachother. It happens that you
> can take an ethereal capture file and read it with
> tcpdump, and also take a tcpdump capture file and 
> read the file with ethereal. That does not mean that
> ethereal is a gui for tcpdump. ethereal however
> has an optional gui, while tcpdump (as far as I
> know) does not.
> 
> You do not need to have tcpdump installed to get
> packet captures with ethereal.

I was thinking about it, I was confused about it's
dependencies.
Thank you for the clearly explanation, Matthew.

Best regards
Manuel

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