sniffer

[Ami Hofman]

is there a real sniffer with nice gui that
works on HP-UX or should i stay happy with
tcpdump and nettl ???

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

there is a fine tool called ethereal which has a perfect GUI:
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gtk/ethereal-0.8.9/

Greetings

Andrew

[Ami Hofman]

i allready downloaded this tool but i can't
make it work on HP-UX 11.0
how can i make it work ???

[Andreas Voss · Accepted solution]

Hi,

you have to download and install dependecies too:
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gtk/glib-1.2.8/
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gtk/gtk+-1.2.8/
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Networking/Admin/libpcap-0.4/
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Misc/zlib-1.1.3/

How to install:

assuming you downloaded to /tmp:
unpack the downloaded file:
gzip -d
if your download file name has no .gz extension do:
gzip -dc < >
then use swinstall:
swinstall -s /tmp/

Greetings

Andrew

[Ami Hofman]

hi!
i didn't eplain my self good, i installed
all the dependencies and the installed
ethereal and all went well, but !!! when i
am trying to activate it i get the error msg:
error: Can't find PPA for /dev/lan0
i have one 100BT card - /dev/lan0
i had the same problem with tcpdump but i
managed to get it work with /dev/dlpi1
this is not working for ethereal, i saw some
doc that said that wouldn't work for ethereal
but what does????
i'm stuck, please help.

[Shannon Petry]

I have the same problem with HP-UX 10.20 on a 9000/700 machine. Ethereal, and all of the dependencies are there. The GUI works fine, but it can not look at the LAN.
None of the readme's have anything. Anyone got this working? If so, what do you specify for the lan device?

[James A. Donovan]

I just asked the same question over in the Networking forum. I found a sentence in the INSTALL file for the libpcap code that says HP's DLPI implementation is "eccentric". It appears that the people who write/support libpcap have not fully ported it to HP yet. The big problem I have right now with tcpdump is that I can only capture incoming packets. Anyone reading this know what needs to be tweaked at the code level for libpcap for DLPI support on HP ?

[Steve Edmunds]

While we're on the subject, I was looking for tcpdump for HP-UX 11i, or Ethereal, but what I'd *really* like to find is Sun's non-GUI "snoop" was there ever a port of this to HP-UX?

Cheers

Steve

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi,

I agree with Andreas. Ethereal is really great. It allows you to perform a top-down approach in analysis from coarse to fine granularity.

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

[jimm_1]

I have installed Ethereal on a HP server,
and wanted to add some notes:

the zlib available on the hp-ux archive center
did not worked I had to get the source code,
also I had to install two other packages libiconv and gettext.

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Misc/zlib-1.1.4/
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Development/Libraries/libiconv-1.8/
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gnu/gettext-0.11.5/

Regards,
Johan BURATI