Ethereal?

[Ankur Sinha]

On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 22:00 +0400, Hiisi wrote:
> Hi, list!
> I've been trying to learn networks. In the book I'm using they use
> Ethereal programm along side with tcpdump to catch packets. I already
> have tcpdump installed. Yum shows me that Ethereal is provided by
> wireshark package that's also installed:
> $ yum provides ethereal
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit, show-leaves
> wireshark-1.2.2-1.fc12.i686 : Network traffic analyzer
> Repo        : fedora
> Matched from:
> Other       : ethereal
> 
> wireshark-1.2.11-1.fc12.i686 : Network traffic analyzer
> Repo        : updates
> Matched from:
> Other       : ethereal
> 
> wireshark-1.2.11-1.fc12.i686 : Network traffic analyzer
> Repo        : installed
> Matched from:
> Other       : Provides-match: ethereal
> 
> However if I try to run 'ethereal' command I've got:
> $ ethereal
> -bash: ethereal: command not found
> So, my question is how to use it?
> TIA
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> Hiisi.
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"Wireshark is a free and open-source packet analyzer. It is used for
network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications protocol
development, and education. Originally named Ethereal, in May 2006 the
project was renamed Wireshark due to trademark issues." ~wikipedia

use Wireshark :)
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Thanks!
Regards,
Ankur 

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