Network Packet Sniffers

Hello every1,

I am new to this group and had some questions regarding packet sniffer
1:Ethereal and 2:tcpdump, 3 :Netlog..

1: I tried installing ethereal after downloading a binary file i.e.
tar.gz file and everything went smoothly till the
make command.
At the end of make command it showed me an error that ucd-snmp is not
activated even though I have resolved all the dependencies which it
showed after the
../configure command..

2: Also if any1 knows how to install tcpdump and run it , please help
me out as i badly need a packet sniffer in my RedHat Linux 9 ...


Thanks a lot for giving your valuable time to reply..

Sincerely
--Hardik Thakker

If you are using RH9 you should use the supplied RPMS:... either from
the CD's or from the net:
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat....i386.rpm.html

Nils

The other useful piece of information is that the ethereal binary is in
the ethereal-gnome RPM.

(E-Mail Removed) <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> 2: Also if any1 knows how to install tcpdump and run it , please help
> me out as i badly need a packet sniffer in my RedHat Linux 9 ...

Not as badly as you need to upgrade to a supported distribution! Last
official maintenance for RH9 ceased April 30, 2004, and the intended
(if rather obscure and little used) replacement updates from Fedora Legacy
haven't really worked out.

Unless my calendar is lying or you've managed something unusually
clever, you've been running obsolete software for 21 months. That's
downright dangerous. You should upgrade to CentOS 4.2, or, if you like
life on the bleeding edge, Fedora Core.

--
Cheers,
Rick Moen "Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."
(E-Mail Removed) -- Elizabeth Tudor