[CentOS] Network Diagnostics

Tue Jan 7 13:28:04 UTC 2020
Michel van Deventer <m.s.j.vandeventer-2 at umcutrecht.nl>

On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 13:21 +0000, Chris Olson via CentOS wrote:
> 
> One of our personnel at another office suggested using
> Wireshark to check out the network when the printer is
> having difficulty.  Wireshark was apparently not on this
> system so we installed it using yum install.  The tail
> end of the apparently successful installation process
> is shown below.  Unfortunately, we cannot seem to find
> Wireshark on the system.
> 
> Is it possible that Wireshark was not actually installed
> or do we just not know how to locate and use it?
> 
> Is this printer networking issue a known problem and is
> Wireshark the right tool to diagnose the problem?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> Installed:
>   wireshark.x86_64 0:1.10.14-
> 16.el7                                                             
> 
> Dependency Installed:
>   libsmi.x86_64 0:0.4.8-
> 13.el7                                                               
>    
> 
> Complete!
> [user at computer ~]$
> [user at computer ~]$ which wireshark
> /usr/bin/which: no wireshark in
> (/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/home/u
> ser/.local/bin:/home/user/bin)
> [user at computer ~]$ 
> 
the package wireshark does not contain the 'wireshark' binary, you
should use 'tshark' on the commandline.
The 'wireshark' binary is in the wireshark-gnome package and requires a
graphical interface.

tshark takes most of the same parameters as wireshark (if not all)

   Regards,

    Michel



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