Lucent Technologies Ethereal - Manual (Page 4)

Table of Contents
Preface ............................................................................................................................. viii
1. Foreword .............................................................................................................. viii
2. Who should read this document? ................................................................................. ix
3. Acknowledgements .................................................................................................... x
4. About this document ................................................................................................. xi
5. Where to get the latest copy of this document? .............................................................. xii
6. Providing feedback about this document ..................................................................... xiii
1. Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 1
1.1. What is Ethereal? .................................................................................................... 1
1.1.1. Some intended purposes ................................................................................. 1
1.1.2. Features ...................................................................................................... 1
1.1.3. Live capture from many different network media ................................................ 2
1.1.4. Import files from many other capture programs .................................................. 2
1.1.5. Export files for many other capture programs ..................................................... 2
1.1.6. Many protocol decoders ................................................................................. 2
1.1.7. Open Source Software ................................................................................... 2
1.1.8. What Ethereal is not ...................................................................................... 3
1.2. Platforms Ethereal runs on ........................................................................................ 4
1.2.1. Unix ........................................................................................................... 4
1.2.2. Linux ......................................................................................................... 4
1.2.3. Microsoft Windows ....................................................................................... 5
1.3. Where to get Ethereal? ............................................................................................. 6
1.4. A rose by any other name ......................................................................................... 7
1.5. A brief history of Ethereal ......................................................................................... 8
1.6. Development and maintenance of Ethereal ................................................................... 9
1.7. Reporting problems and getting help ..........................................................................10
1.7.1. Website .....................................................................................................10
1.7.2. Wiki ..........................................................................................................10
1.7.3. FAQ ..........................................................................................................10
1.7.4. Mailing Lists ..............................................................................................10
1.7.5. Reporting Problems ......................................................................................11
1.7.6. Reporting Crashes on UNIX/Linux platforms ....................................................11
1.7.7. Reporting Crashes on Windows platforms ........................................................12
2. Building and Installing Ethereal ...........................................................................................14
2.1. Introduction ..........................................................................................................14
2.2. Obtaining the source and binary distributions ...............................................................15
2.3. Before you build Ethereal under UNIX .......................................................................16
2.4. Building Ethereal from source under UNIX .................................................................19
2.5. Installing the binaries under UNIX ............................................................................21
2.5.1. Installing from rpm's under RedHat and alike ....................................................21
2.5.2. Installing from deb's under Debian ..................................................................21
2.6. Troubleshooting during the install on Unix ..................................................................22
2.7. Building from source under Windows ........................................................................23
2.8. Installing Ethereal under Windows ............................................................................24
2.8.1. Install Ethereal ............................................................................................24
2.8.2. Install WinPcap ...........................................................................................25
2.8.3. Update Ethereal ...........................................................................................26
2.8.4. Update WinPcap ..........................................................................................26
2.8.5. Uninstall Ethereal ........................................................................................26
2.8.6. Uninstall WinPcap .......................................................................................27
3. User Interface ..................................................................................................................29
3.1. Introduction ..........................................................................................................29
3.2. Start Ethereal .........................................................................................................30
3.3. The Main window ..................................................................................................31
3.4. The Menu .............................................................................................................33
3.5. The "File" menu .....................................................................................................34
3.6. The "Edit" menu ....................................................................................................37
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