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-In order to capture packets (with Ethereal/Tethereal, tcpdump, or any
+In order to capture packets (with Wireshark/TShark, tcpdump, or any
other libpcap-based packet capture program) on a Linux system, the
"packet" protocol must be supported by your kernel. If it is not, you
may get error messages such as
In addition, older versions of libpcap will, on Linux systems with a
2.0[.x] kernel, or if built for systems with a 2.0[.x] kernel, not turn
promiscuous mode off on a network device until the program using
-promiscuous mode exits, so if you start a capture with Ethereal on some
+promiscuous mode exits, so if you start a capture with Wireshark on some
Linux distributions, the network interface will be put in promiscuous
-mode and will remain in promiscuous mode until Ethereal exits. There
+mode and will remain in promiscuous mode until Wireshark exits. There
might be additional libpcap bugs that cause it not to be turned off even
-when Ethereal exits; if your network is busy, this could cause the Linux
+when Wireshark exits; if your network is busy, this could cause the Linux
networking stack to do a lot more work discarding packets not intended
-for the machine, so you may want to check, after running Ethereal,
+for the machine, so you may want to check, after running Wireshark,
whether any network interfaces are in promiscuous mode (the output of
"ifconfig -a" will say something such as