Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 07:06:57 -0500 From: Michael Aucoin <maucoin01@mediaone.net> To: FreeBSD user <freebsd@XtremeDev.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Benedikt Schmidt <s_bschmi@ira.uka.de> Subject: Re: Available Sniffers Message-ID: <3BE680E1.1E1F254@mediaone.net> References: <20011104012342.F29299-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com>
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All,
Thanks for the help. I had failed to restart my X server (duh).
Mike
FreeBSD user wrote:
> 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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