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General Information
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Ethereal is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating systems.
It is based on GTK+, a graphical user interface library, and libpcap,
a packet capture and filtering library.
The official home of Ethereal is
http://ethereal.zing.org
The latest distribution can be found in the subdirectory
http://ethereal.zing.org/distribution
Installation
------------
Ethereal is known to compile and run under Linux (2.0.35) and Solaris
(2.6). It should run on other systems without too much trouble.
Installation Checklist (Short):
[ ] 1. Unpack the archive.
[ ] 2. Run './configure; make; make install; make install-man'.
If there are any problems, read on:
Installation Checklist (Long):
[ ] 0. This is alpha software. Beware.
[ ] 1. Make sure you have GTK+ installed. Try running 'gtk-config
--version'. If you need to install/reinstall GTK, you can find
it at
http://www.gtk.org .
Ethereal should work with the latest stable (1.0.x) version, but
I've had reports that it doesn't compile with the development
(1.1.x) tree.
[ ] 2. Make sure you have libpcap installed. The latest version can be
found at
ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov .
Make sure you install the headers ('make install-incl') when you
install the library.
[ ] 3. Run './configure' in the Ethereal distribution directory.
Running './configure --help' displays a list of options.
The file 'INSTALL' contains general instructions for running
'configure'.
[ ] 4. Run 'make'. Hopefully, you won't run into any problems.
[ ] 5. Run './ethereal', and make sure things are working. You must
have root privileges in order to capture live data.
[ ] 6. Run 'make install'. If you wish to install the man page, run
'make install-man'. You're done.
Usage
-----
In order to capture packets from the network, you need to be running
as root. Although it might be tempting to make the Ethereal executable
setuid root, please don't - alpha code is by nature not very robust, and
liable to contain security holes.
The filtering mechanism is far from complete. Until the interface
solidifies, here's a description of what each component of the filter
dialog:
- 'Filter name' entry: Gives a name to the filter you are about to create
or modify, e.g. 'Web and DNS traffic'
- 'Filter string' entry: The text describing the filtering action to
take. It must have the same format as tcpdump filter strings (both
programs use the same underlying library), e.g.
'tcp port 80 or tcp port 443 or port 53'
- 'New' button: If there is text in the two entry boxes, adds it to the
list.
- 'Change' button: Modifies the currently selected list item to match
what's in the two entry boxes.
- 'Copy' button: Makes a copy of the currently-selected list item.
- 'Delete' button: Deletes the currently-selected list item.
- 'OK' button: Sets the selected list item as the active filter. If
nothing is selected, turns filtering off.
- 'Save' button: Saves the current filter list in
$HOME/.ethereal/filters.
- 'Cancel' button: Closes the window without making changes.
Disclaimer
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There is no warranty, expressed or implied, associated with this product.
Use at your own risk.
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