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Date:      Sun, 18 Mar 2007 19:48:00 -0500
From:      Guy Helmer <ghelmer@palisadesys.com>
To:        Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, manuel.ochoa@yahoo.com
Subject:   Re: Wireshark
Message-ID:  <45FDDDC0.70102@palisadesys.com>
In-Reply-To: <200703172005.12027.max@love2party.net>
References:  <826528.78192.qm@web58011.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <200703172005.12027.max@love2party.net>

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Max Laier wrote:
> On Saturday 17 March 2007 19:16, manuel.ochoa@yahoo.com wrote:
>   
>> Can someone please explain the difference between Wireshark and
>> Wireshark-lite. I would like to install a packet sniffer on my FreeBSD
>> box for CLI only. Thanks,
>>     
>
> What's wrong with tcpdump(8)?  Other than that building either the real or 
> the -lite version with "WITHOUT_X11" defined will get you the 
> cli-version.  "-lite" seems to just disable a couple of dissectors that 
> have a lot of external dependencies.
>
>   
I like the tshark-lite port myself to get the protocol decoders in CLI 
(text) mode...

Guy

-- 
Guy Helmer, Ph.D.
Chief System Architect
Palisade Systems, Inc.




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