Wireshark

[Guy Helmer]

Max Laier wrote:
> On Saturday 17 March 2007 19:16, manuel.ochoa at 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

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