On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, Bulk Mail wrote:
> I was actually looking for ethereal and ran into etherape. I need ethereal as
> it does a better job than anything I've seen in analyzing packets, and
> generally debug network issues. It's a bloated hog too, but works reasonably
> well.
www.ethereal.com
I got it to all compile, just using the configure scripts that
came with it. It erred, however, at linking itself, not finding
a library (libwiretap) that it shipped with. I was sleepy at that
point and stopped.
Try dloading it and building it. If you get the link error, it
should be fairly obvious what to do to fix it.
> Ethereal was pulled after a big security hole was found. It took several
> versions later to fix (0.10.14, at least .10, if I recall correctly).
Ah, so. Yeah that can be a problem with programs that mess around
with raw devices and interior kernel structures.
> I got a VoIP issue and need to analyze the packet communication to see what
> is
> being "said" by whom. Being familiar with ethereal it's my choice tool.
If you're already over the learning curve with ethereal, then trying
what I said above may be your solution. I assume you're a C programmer,
familiar with building things and with the typical glitches that
can occur. If not, let me know, I'll see what I can do.
etherape did work OK with the patches mentioned. I needed to get into
the "preferences" and twiddle a little before the display made any
sense at all.
Good luck!
Dave
--
"Confound these wretched rodents! For every one I fling away,
a dozen more vex me!" -- Doctor Doom
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