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authorMichiel van Wessem <michiel@slackbuilds.org>2010-11-24 23:03:54 +0100
committerHeinz Wiesinger <pprkut@slackbuilds.org>2010-11-24 23:21:04 +0100
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Wireshark (aka Ethereal) is a free packet sniffer computer application. It is
-used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications
-protocol development, and education. In June 2006 the project was
+used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications
+protocol development, and education. In June 2006 the project was
renamed from Ethereal due to trademark issues.
-The functionality Wireshark provides is very similar to tcpdump, but it has
-a graphical front-end, and many more information sorting and filtering
+The functionality Wireshark provides is very similar to tcpdump, but it has
+a graphical front-end, and many more information sorting and filtering
options. It allows the user to see all traffic being passed over the network
-(usually an Ethernet network but support is being added for others) by
+(usually an Ethernet network but support is being added for others) by
putting the network interface into promiscuous mode.
-Wireshark uses the cross-platform GTK+ widget toolkit. Its powerful features
-make it the tool of choice for network troubleshooting, protocol development,
+Wireshark uses the cross-platform GTK+ widget toolkit. Its powerful features
+make it the tool of choice for network troubleshooting, protocol development,
and education worldwide.
+
+If you use a filesystem that supports posix capabilities, an easy way to start
+wireshark as normal user, while still providing it with all the access
+permissions it requires, is by issuing the following command:
+
+ setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin=eip /usr/bin/dumpcap