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Ethereal - Network protocol analyzer

Ethereal is a network protocol analyzer, or "packet sniffer", that lets you capture and interactively browse the contents of network frames. The goal of the project is to create a commercial-quality packet analyzer for Unix, and the most useful packet analyzer on any platform.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.ethereal.com/
Source tarballhttp://www.ethereal.com/distribution/ethereal-0.10.5.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://www.ethereal.com/download.html#sources
Version 0.10.5 (stable) released on 2004-07-08
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User guide available in HTML format from http://www.ethereal.com/docs/user-guide/
Support contacts

Announce List<ethereal-announce@ethereal.com> http://www.ethereal.com/lists/
Help List<ethereal-users@ethereal.com> http://www.ethereal.com/lists/
Developer List<ethereal-dev@ethereal.com> http://www.ethereal.com/lists/

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
Contributors

Related information

Source repository:pserver:anoncvs@cvs.ethereal.com:/cvsroot; export CVSROOT http://www.ethereal.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/
Interfacescommand line, X Window System
Programsethereal, tethereal, text2pcap
Source languagesC
Source prerequisitesGTK+ 1.2 or later, libpcap (http://www.tcpdump.org/)
Weak prerequisitesPerl (to build the documentation), zilb (to read gzip-compressed files on the fly), NET-SNMP or CMU-SNMP libraries (to enable SNMP data decoding)

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-02-04
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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