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Date:      Fri, 11 May 2007 10:51:15 -0500
From:      Eric <heli@mikestammer.com>
To:        Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: What happened to ethereal in the ports
Message-ID:  <464490F3.6050303@mikestammer.com>
In-Reply-To: <340a29540705110850l4791dea2y1e59e5bac09a5eee@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <340a29540705110850l4791dea2y1e59e5bac09a5eee@mail.gmail.com>

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Andrew Falanga wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was needing to do some packet analysis this week (that's what
> prompted my question earlier about tcpdump), and in doing so I went to
> /usr/ports and did "make search name=ethereal" and was returned 4
> hits.  Basically, these hits were for ethereal or ethereal-lite.  The
> directory was  /usr/ports/net/ethereal.  I tried to cd to that
> directory and nothing.  The directory doesn't exist.
> 
> I go to http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html and search for
> ethereal, same thing, no hits.  Same result after searching through
> http://www.freshports.org.  So, I remembered being told (from someone
> here) to read /usr/ports/UPDATING for questions to be answered about
> issues like this.  I went to see that file and there was nothing in it
> about ethereal.  Well, that is, no hits in vim after searching for
> "ethereal" or "Ethereal".
> 
> So, long story short, what happened to it?  Why was it removed?  If it
> was because there was no maintainer, that doesn't make any sense since
> many of the ports I've found are marked as "no maintainer".  Can I
> simply download and install and expect it to work?
> 

Look for wireshark. i believe it was in UPDATING



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