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Network Monitoring with Ethereal (Linux Journal)

[Posted February 13, 2006 by ris]

Linux Journal looks at Ethereal for network analysis. "Besides basic monitoring, Ethereal offers a lot of analyzing options. In my example at the start of this article, I could have used a filter to pull out the expected traffic. For example, adding tcp.port != 80 to the filter window and clicking the Apply button would have excluded any port 80 (HTTP) traffic from the display." Originally published in Linux Gazette issue 98.

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Posted Feb 13, 2006 20:00 UTC (Mon) by eric_boutilier (guest, #35765) [Link]

If there were such a classification as "venerable killer syadmin app", Ethereal would certainly be in it. To put a finer point on this, here are some stats from freshmeat.org.

Ethereal:

Originally released (maturity): 1998
Rating:         8.58/10.00
Vitality:       2.96%
Popularity:     24.58%

That popularity rating places it 30th overall. (So what are the top 5 overall? They are MPlayer, Linux, cdrtools, PHP, and gcc.)

Eric Boutilier
OpenSolaris
(formerly Solaris freeware/Companion CD Product Manager)

Freshmeat.NET

Posted Feb 14, 2006 15:51 UTC (Tue) by pflugstad (subscriber, #224) [Link]

not .org - freshmeat.org looks like a spam site of some kind...

Freshmeat.NET

Posted Feb 16, 2006 11:54 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Perhaps it's selling fresh spam? (Spam *is* technically meat, after all, even if some of us consider it the food equivalent of toxic waste.)