Q re networking, might need guru

[Paul Howarth]

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.