[CentOS] Using Wireshark on CentOS without UI

Thu Apr 22 12:03:09 UTC 2010
Jatin Davey <jashokda at cisco.com>

Is the installation of tcpdump similar to wireshark ,

which is : yum install tcpdump ?

How about getting started with it , Any documentation available for it ?

Thanks
Jatin

On 4/22/2010 5:30 PM, James Hogarth wrote:
> On 22 April 2010 12:57, Jatin Davey<jashokda at cisco.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Hi All
>>
>> Yesterday i had installed wireshark on my centos box which does not have
>> the GUI , It is actually a hardened box. I installed the tool using the
>> following command:
>>
>> yum install wireshark
>>
>> After installation i dont know how to proceed further in capturing the
>> packets. I basically want to capture packets and copy them onto my
>> windows box. On the windows box i can use the Wireshark UI to open the
>> pcap file to view its contents.
>>
>> Can some one help me in this regard.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Jatin
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> For a box with no GUI use tcpdump to get a packet capture to then scp
> over to a box with wireshark on it to analyse the traffic... your
> windows box in this case.
>
> James
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