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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
