Q re networking, might need guru
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Thu May 18 14:58:06 UTC 2006
Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.
>
Yes I did that, but I'm running kde Les, and have to start it from the
cli. It didn't work, I presume its too gnome-centric so I removed it,
and now etherape, another GTK+ app, cannot be made to work. If this
yumex update ever gets done, its been working on it for 4 hours now,
I'll reboot to 2118_FC5 and see if that does any good. That will bring
in a new compiler version & maybe a 3rd rebuild will restore etherape.
We'll bow to the east & all that if it does.
--
Cheers, Gene
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