Tshark and like tools

[Alex Snow]

Nessus is nonfree as in speech, though still free as in beer...I've 
used it before, the CLI version works well, and the GTK version is 
useable with orca.  Some other network analysis software that comes to 
mind is ettercap, tcptrace, and tcpdump.
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 
08:59:36AM -0700, Tony Baechler wrote:
> Sean Murphy wrote:
> >Has anyone written any tools to simplify the use of Tshark or any 
> >other network protocol analyzing text based tools under Linux?
> >
> >I am seeking tools to be able to trace TCP or UDP conversations. 
> >Determining the round trips of packets.  Finding out what protocols 
> >are being used by whom and where too.  Etc.
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> You didn't mention what distro you're using, but I can say that there 
> are several Debian packages to do what you want.  You might want to look 
> at the grml live CD as it comes with many of them already installed and 
> running.  I don't have a list of the packages but I ended up removing 
> several dozen.  You could look at http://grml.org/ and see if the list 
> of packages is online and go from there.  My mind is going blank as to 
> the names of some of them.  One is nessusd or similar but it is non-fre 
> I think.  You could also look at the "harden" Debian package and 
> specifically its dependencies.  That might also give some ideas.  You 
> could browse through the "Net" section as well.  If your distro has a 
> package search ability, you could search for network security or 
> similar.  There are many programs out there to do what you want.  
> Obviously, Google is your friend here.
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