-$Id: README,v 1.61 2003/09/03 07:11:31 sharpe Exp $
+$Id: README,v 1.66 2004/02/11 20:30:27 guy Exp $
General Information
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Ethereal is known to compile and run on the following systems:
- - Linux (2.0.x, 2.1.x, 2.2.x, 2.3.x, 2.4.x)
- - Solaris (2.5.1, 2.6, 7)
- - FreeBSD (2.2.5, 2.2.6, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3)
+ - Linux (2.0 and later kernels, various distributions)
+ - Solaris (2.5.1 and later)
+ - FreeBSD (2.2.5 and later)
+ - NetBSD
+ - OpenBSD
+ - Mac OS X (10.2 and later)
+ - HP-UX (10.20, 11.00, 11.11)
- Sequent PTX v4.4.5 (Nick Williams <njw@sequent.com>)
- - Tru64 UNIX (formerly Digital UNIX) (3.2, 4.0)
+ - Tru64 UNIX (formerly Digital UNIX) (3.2 and later)
- Irix (6.5)
- AIX (4.3.2, with a bit of work)
- - Win32 (NT, 98)
+ - Win32 (98, NT, 2000, XP)
-It should run on other Unix-ish systems without too much trouble.
+and possibly on other versions of those OSes. It should run on other
+Unix-ish systems without too much trouble.
NOTE: the Makefile appears to depend on GNU "make"; it doesn't appear to
work with the "make" that comes with Solaris 7 nor the BSD "make".
AIX's iptrace
Cinco Networks NetXRray
Network Associates Windows-based Sniffer
-AG Group/WildPackets EtherPeek/TokenPeek/AiroPeek
+AG Group/WildPackets EtherPeek/TokenPeek/AiroPeek/EtherHelp
RADCOM's WAN/LAN Analyzer
Lucent/Ascend access products
HP-UX's nettl
Traffic captures from Visual Networks' Visual UpTime
CoSine L2 debug output
Output from Accellent's 5Views LAN agents
+Endace Measurement Systems' ERF format
+Linux Bluez Bluetooth stack "hcidump -w" traces
+Network Instruments Observer version 9
+Trace files for the EyeSDN USB S0
In addition, it can read gzipped versions of any of these files
automatically, if you have the zlib library available when compiling