Q re networking, might need guru

[Gene Heskett]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 09:58, 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.
>>>
>>> You have something even worse wrong.  I see ethereal in the internet 
>>> menu in a KDE session and it also works fine started
>>> from the command line in a Konsole window.  There is nothing about
>>> kde that breaks gtk/gnome apps.
>>
>> I did not see befor or after installing etherape, and etherape was the 
>> first tarball I'd built.  Everything else except skype is an rpm.  And 
>> I built it to get a network monitor of SOME kind. There is not, and 
>> never has been, an ethereal available in any kde menu.  What tree did 
>> yours show up in?  I'm looking in the yumex info for the installed 
>> ethereal, and the info there does not show an executable binary as 
>> being part of that package:
>> /etc/pam.d/ethereal
>> /etc/security/console.apps/ethereal
>> /usr/lib/ethereal
>> /usr/lib/ethereal/plugins
>> /usr/lib/ethereal/plugins/0.99.0
>> /usr/lib/ethereal/plugins/0.99.0/acn.so
>> /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/agentx.so
>> /usr/sbin/artnet.so
>> /usr/share/doc/asn1.so
>> /usr/share/doc/ethereal-0.99.0/ciscosm.so
>> /usr/share/doc/ethereal-0.99.0/doc/coseventcomm.so
>> /usr/share/cosnaming.so
>> /usr/share/ethereal/docsis.so
>> /usr/share/ethereal/diameter/enttec.so
>> /usr/share/ethereal/dtds/gryphon.so
>> /usr/share/ethereal/help/h223.so
>> /usr/share/ethereal/radius/irda.so
>> /usr/share/man/man1/lwres.so
>> /usr/share/man/man4/mate.so
>>
>> I do not see an excutable binary in that list, hence my comment about 
>> the packaging of it.  Does yours show one?
> 
> The FC5 ethereal package has some binaries in /usr/sbin
> 
> The menu will probably show up if you install the separate 
> ethereal-gnome package.
> 
> Paul.
> 
Well, I installed it, it didn't work AFAICS, and I took it out.  But 
here's one for you!  I can't get etherape to run from the cli, so I just 
rebooted twice the second time because the kernel modules I need haven't 
been done for 2118 yet, ndiswrapper and ntfs.

Anyway, after wandering around in the menu's looking for ethereal, I 
found etherape, and damned if it doesn't run just fine from the kmenu. 
So now I have a network monitor again & camping out is happy again 
except for the wood ticks here in the UP.

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Cheers, Gene