What happen to Wireshark?

Steve Dickson SteveD at redhat.com
Wed May 23 17:30:08 UTC 2007



Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 13:19 -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
>> Will Woods wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 09:45 -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
>>>> I just installed test4 and notice Wireshark was not
>>>> available (not even as an option) but tcpdump was installed
>>>> by default... that is totally wrong..
>>> Wireshark's still available, it's just not in the comps file for the
>>> default spin. 'yum install wireshark' will still work post-install. Or
>>> you could put it in your kickstart file if you're installing over the
>>> network.
>> True... but when your asking asking someone to send you
>> an binary network trace (a *usable* network track at is) and
>> all they have (by default) is tcpdump, time is wasted
>> (on both sides) because they send up sending a useless
>> trace.. Plus having them yum install something they are
>> not familiar with can be a hard sell... why complicate
>> things by requiring people to take an extra step...
> 
> You know tcpdump can save pcap files, right?
Oh yeah... I've had a long and sorted history with
tcpdump.. The main problem is if you don't specify the
correct arguments, the binary trace it produces is useless
because it does not capture enough of the packet...
and lets not even start to talk about what protocols
it does *not* support... :-)

steved.




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