Q re networking, might need guru

[Gene Heskett]

Bob Goodwin wrote:
> 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?
>>
> I don't know which repo it came from but I installed etherape [in this 
> FC5] and several related app's via yumex about a week ago.
> 
> Bob Goodwin
> 
Does the yumex remove menu tell you the repo it came from?  Its not 
listed as available here at all.  I just checked, that info is not 
generally available so ignore me..

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Cheers, Gene