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@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ README.windows for those instructions. GLib 2.x; you need to configure with --disable-gtk2 to use GTK+ 1.2[.x]. - Please also note that GTK+ 1.2[.x] is only supported up to + Please also note that GTK+ 1.2[.x] is only supported up to Wireshark 1.0.x. From Wireshark 1.1.x onwards only GTK+ 2.x is supported. @@ -71,7 +71,9 @@ README.windows for those instructions. 4. Building Wireshark requires Perl (specifically the pod2man program) so that the documentation can be built. -5. Run './configure' in the Wireshark distribution directory. +5. Building Wireshark requires Python. + +6. Run './configure' in the Wireshark distribution directory. Running './configure --help' displays a complete list of options. The file 'INSTALL.configure' contains general instructions for using 'configure' and 'make'. Some of the Wireshark non-generic @@ -208,16 +210,16 @@ README.windows for those instructions. Use this switch to change the location where plugins are installed. -6. After running './configure', you will see a summary of some +7. After running './configure', you will see a summary of some of the options you chose. Ensure that the summary reflects what you want. If it doesn't, re-run './configure' with new options. -7. Run 'make'. Hopefully, you won't run into any problems. +8. Run 'make'. Hopefully, you won't run into any problems. -8. Run './wireshark' or './tshark' or ./dumpcap, and make sure things are +9. Run './wireshark' or './tshark' or ./dumpcap, and make sure things are working. You must have root privileges in order to capture live data. -9./a. Run 'make install'. If you're running a system that supports +10./a. Run 'make install'. If you're running a system that supports the RPM, OSX, or System V Release 4 packaging systems, you can run one of @@ -229,7 +231,7 @@ README.windows for those instructions. to make an installable package for your system. -9/b. If you 're running a system that supports APT (Debian/Ubuntu/etc.) +10/b. If you 're running a system that supports APT (Debian/Ubuntu/etc.) run dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot @@ -50,27 +50,24 @@ Wireshark 0.99.4, and Windows 95, 98, and ME are supported by Ethereal 0.99.0. NOTE: the Makefile appears to depend on GNU "make"; it doesn't appear to work with the "make" that comes with Solaris 7 nor the BSD "make". -Perl is also needed to create the man page. + +Both Perl and Python are needed, the former for building the man pages. If you decide to modify the yacc grammar or lex scanner, then you need "flex" - it cannot be built with vanilla "lex" - and either "bison" or the Berkeley "yacc". Your flex version must be 2.5.1 or greater. Check this with 'flex -V'. -If you decide to modify the NetWare Core Protocol dissector, you -will need python, as the data for packet types is stored in a python -script, ncp2222.py. - -You must therefore install Perl, GNU "make", "flex", and either "bison" or -Berkeley "yacc" on systems that lack them. +You must therefore install Perl, Python, GNU "make", "flex", and either "bison" +or Berkeley "yacc" on systems that lack them. Full installation instructions can be found in the INSTALL file. - + See also the appropriate README.<OS> files for OS-specific installation instructions. Usage ------ +----- In order to capture packets from the network, you need to make the dumpcap program set-UID to root, or you need to have access to the @@ -119,7 +116,7 @@ file if it's small and contains non-sensitive data. Support for Lucent/Ascend products is limited to the debug trace output generated by the MAX and Pipline series of products. Wireshark can read the output of the "wandsession" "wandisplay", "wannext", and "wdd" -commands. +commands. Wireshark can also read dump trace output from the Toshiba "Compact Router" line of ISDN routers (TR-600 and TR-650). You can telnet to the router @@ -131,8 +128,8 @@ debug output, get in the diags mode first and then use layer-2 category. For more detail how to use these commands, you should examine the help command by "layer-2 create ?" or "layer-2 apply ?". -To use the Lucent/Ascend, Toshiba and CoSine traces with Wireshark, you must -capture the trace output to a file on disk. The trace is happening inside +To use the Lucent/Ascend, Toshiba and CoSine traces with Wireshark, you must +capture the trace output to a file on disk. The trace is happening inside the router and the router has no way of saving the trace to a file for you. An easy way of doing this under Unix is to run "telnet <ascend> | tee <outfile>". Or, if your system has the "script" command installed, you can save |