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authorsahlberg <sahlberg@f5534014-38df-0310-8fa8-9805f1628bb7>2006-06-17 12:21:54 +0000
committersahlberg <sahlberg@f5534014-38df-0310-8fa8-9805f1628bb7>2006-06-17 12:21:54 +0000
commit67373861f3043b9738796bde17f7c25593b5eb72 (patch)
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$Id$
-In order to capture packets (with Ethereal/TShark, tcpdump, or any
+In order to capture packets (with Wireshark/TShark, tcpdump, or any
other libpcap-based packet capture program) on a Linux system, the
"packet" protocol must be supported by your kernel. If it is not, you
may get error messages such as
@@ -83,13 +83,13 @@ distribution releases will not have this problem.
In addition, older versions of libpcap will, on Linux systems with a
2.0[.x] kernel, or if built for systems with a 2.0[.x] kernel, not turn
promiscuous mode off on a network device until the program using
-promiscuous mode exits, so if you start a capture with Ethereal on some
+promiscuous mode exits, so if you start a capture with Wireshark on some
Linux distributions, the network interface will be put in promiscuous
-mode and will remain in promiscuous mode until Ethereal exits. There
+mode and will remain in promiscuous mode until Wireshark exits. There
might be additional libpcap bugs that cause it not to be turned off even
-when Ethereal exits; if your network is busy, this could cause the Linux
+when Wireshark exits; if your network is busy, this could cause the Linux
networking stack to do a lot more work discarding packets not intended
-for the machine, so you may want to check, after running Ethereal,
+for the machine, so you may want to check, after running Wireshark,
whether any network interfaces are in promiscuous mode (the output of
"ifconfig -a" will say something such as