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To: Michael Aucoin <maucoin01@mediaone.net>
Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Benedikt Schmidt <s_bschmi@ira.uka.de>
Subject: Re: Available Sniffers
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Type "ethereal" without the quotes, and hit enter. Need to be root to have
your nic go into promiscuous mode.


On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Michael Aucoin wrote:

> 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 <maucoin01@mediaone.net> 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
>
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