+1 A good one point of view, in IMHO. Juan J. Marí
El 14/03/14 15:14, Alan McKinnon escribió: > On 14/03/2014 15:59, Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am currently updating my 201 teaching material and I just noticed that >> wireshark was dropped from the 205.2 but tcpdump is still there ?! >> Isn't that a mistake ? >> >> I consider wireshark a nice GUI frontend for tcpdump. > > > I would not consider that a mistake at all. I would consider that desirable. > > tcpdump is the workhorse engine, the part sysadmins are supposed to know > about. Wireshark is, well, it's a pretty front end gui. It's also hard > to examine (like all GUI tools) - the questions usually end up being > some form of "where do you click to get feature X?" > > By all means included wireshark in your classes - tcpdump on it's own is > hard to grasp at first whilst wireshark demonstrates what is going on. > So it makes a very good teaching tool, but not a good examinable one. > > -- ------------------------- Juan J. Marí jjmarimor...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
