From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 3 21:44: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmls20.mediaone.net (chmls20.mediaone.net [24.147.1.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CB7337B405 for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2001 21:44:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from mediaone.net ([24.147.228.147]) by chmls20.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id fA45isx22650; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 00:44:55 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3BE4D339.E2518191@mediaone.net> Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2001 00:33:45 -0500 From: Michael Aucoin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: Benedikt Schmidt Subject: Re: Available Sniffers References: <3BE40115.D1782D7D@mediaone.net> <20011103160725.A34154@wn4-marvin.wn4.uni-karlsruhe.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Benedikt was kind enough to suggest ethereal. I investigated it and it seems promising. I installed the port. It seemed to install fine. The make file also installed gdt and libtool. Please excuse my ignorance - what do I do now to execute it? I have KDE as my desktop environment, and I start X by using the startx command. I guess I am clueless as to what running GDT means. Can anyone outline the steps to take? Thanks! Mike Benedikt Schmidt wrote: > Michael Aucoin wrote: > > Are there any GUI-enabled sniffers (network analyzers) available on > > FreeBSD? My group and I are trying to look at network traffic at a more > > macroscopic view and are less interested in the contents of packets. We > > are interested in filtering specific packets out of a large number and > > logging them. For instance, in some cases we are experiencing software > > problems that occur seldom over a few days. When they occur we would > > like to be able to capture LDAP traffic and TCP traffic for the > > connections being used by LDAP. I guess the ability to set up filtering > > and to easily display traffic after the fact are essential. My group > > finds tcpdump harder to setup and use textually. Is there an > > alternative? > There is /usr/ports/net/ethereal an "X11/GTK network analyzer/capture > tool". > > -- > Benedikt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message