# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-02-04 09:14:17 -0800:
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 08:15:04AM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> > # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-02-01 18:55:23 -0800:
> > > If you have X installed, you could use ethereal
> > > (/usr/ports/net/ethereal)....it is a very nice graphical interface for
> > > analyzing network traffice. I think it uses tcpdump itself??
> >
> > you can use ethereal without X.
>
> You are probably refering to `tethereal`. I am talking about `ethereal`
> - the GUI. They are two different binaries. The first sentence of the
> ethereal man page says: "Ethereal is a GUI network protocol analyzer."
> At any rate, my point in suggesting ethereal was to offer up an
> alternative to the text based tcpdump, in the hope that it might be
> easier to analyze the data, not simply to offer up another text based
> utility. In a broad sense you are correct in that tethereal is
> installed along with ethereal, in a technical sense you are wrong.
It is my understanding that the difference is in whether the GTK
libs are linked in or not. But you could be right:
roman@freepuppy ~ 1127:0 > grep -A10 WITHOUT_X11 /usr/ports/net/ethereal/Makefile
.if !defined(WITHOUT_X11)
USE_X_PREFIX= yes
USE_GNOME= gtk12
MAN1+= ethereal.1
PLIST_SUB+= ETHEREAL=bin/ethereal
.else
PLIST_SUB+= ETHEREAL="@comment ethereal not built"
USE_GNOME= glib12
CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --enable-ethereal=no \
--disable-gtktest
.endif
With or without the GUI, [t]ethereal's output is much more readable
(for me anyway) than that of tcpdump, and that was why I chimed in.
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