[techtalk] network monitor

[Maureen Lecuona]

nmap, tcpdump, cold are all useable.

Maureen Lecuona


Tech Docs wrote:
> 
> newbie here. What is the best network monitor and sniffer tool for Linux. I
> am using Linux on my ibm thinkpad i series running on pentium 266 and 128 mb
> ram. i would like to realize the power of linux in network monitoring,
> bandwidth analysis and sniffers. where do i start? i am quite familiar with
> solaris and good in networking as such.
> 
> also are there any interesting articles on linux security available online?
> 
> Cheers!
> Sriram
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Shirrell <shirrell at pstat.com>
> To: <techtalk at hub.org>
> Sent: Sunday, December 12, 1999 1:57 PM
> Subject: [techtalk] who else uses ncurses?
> 
> >
> > I am having portability problems which seem to be related to
> > ncurses.
> >
> > Background:  a 600,000 + line Fortran package which through a c
> >   interface uses curses to provide full screen menus and
> >   data entry.   Home environment SUN Solaris, runs also on DGUX,
> >   Xenix, Aix and just about any Unix we have tried.
> >
> > First linux port March 1998 SuSE 5.2.  Upgraded gcc and g77 to
> > overcome early g77 problems.  No problems running on SuSE or Caldera.
> > However, did not implement some minor X11 features because of
> > problems installing XFree86.
> >
> > Brought in RedHat 6.1 to provide an alternate test and to get the
> > X11 stuff implemented.  Found that RedHat modules could not run
> > on SuSE.  However, SuSE modules could run on RedHAT as long as
> > the ncurses library was statically linked
> > into the module.  There were two succesful modules.
> >
> >   SuSE linked entirely static
> >   SuSE dynamic but with ncurses linked as static
> >
> > Then:
> >
> > Potential customer cannot run either module from early RedHat (4.2).
> > (This may just be the way that things are. You can go up but now down.)
> >
> > In attempting to find out why and perhaps solve things, I have now
> > installed gcc and g77 6.95.2 on both SuSE and RedHat.  Again, RedHat
> > modules cannot run on SuSE but SuSE modules can run under RedHat
> > with the same constraints as before.
> >
> > In addition, the RedHat modules running on RedHat (no matter how linked)
> > all dump core in the middle of the standard test run if, and only if,
> > ncurses has been invoked in any way at the beginning of the run.
> > This is not a problem running the SuSE modules under RedHat.
> >
> > SuSE seems to have ncurses.1 while RedHat has libraries for ncurses
> > 3.0 and 4.2.
> >
> > I would appreciate any help or insight on this problem
> >
> > Shirrell Buhler, P-STAT, Inc.
> > sb at pstat.com
> >
> >
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> >
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