Re: Ethereal becomes Wireshark

Mike Savory <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.opendarwin.darwinports
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dohhh

I fell for the trap of searching for the port on the web-page instead  
of going "port info wireshark"

By the way it installed and ran fine.....

Just had to "port deactivate ethereal" to remove a conflict with /opt/ 
local/bin/capinfos


Cheers

Mike



On Aug 8, 2006, at 3:00 PM, Eric Hall wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 02:33:13PM -0700, Mike Savory wrote:
>>> The Ethereal packet sniffer is changing names and getting a new
>> home....
>>> Wireshark. http://www.wireshark.org/
>>
>> Wireshark 0.99.2 was Released Jul 17, 2006
>>
>> Is anyone looking at upgrading/replacing the current Ethereal port ??
>>
>> The Wireshark 0.99.2 fixes some security issues over the last
>> ethereal 0.99.0, Revision 1 that is in the current portfile.
>>
>> Is there a way of coping with a port that changes name? should there
>> just be a new port for Wireshark. how about invalidating the old
>> ethereal port (with a UI_message to says its been replaced by
>> wireshark....)
>>
>
> 	The wireshark port was added 2 weeks ago....
>
> 	Ethereal will get some sort of notice that wireshark exists,
> haven't decided how that will happen yet.
>
>
> 			-eric
>
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