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Dpup, How does one go about compiling wireshark in wary?

I used and it configured fine however when I tried running the make file was when I was running into problems, kept giving me different errors, I tried modifying the makefile to no avail, as I said it would probably take someone who is used to compiling in Wary to do it as I am not very familiar with how Wary works or the different dependencies it requires as I've always stayed away from it.

DPUP5520 wrote:... NMAP can technically be used... but I wouldn't recommend it, if you want to monitor your public IP for changes I would recommend using IP Monitor. ... so if anyone wants it posted let me know.

I would be interested in a link.

How difficult would you think it would be to have a tray item which show Internet Up or down and maybe show Public IP?

For most of us (certainly ALL of us here on the forum), I would have thought that in 20 years someone else (other than us) would have seen a need for this.

Thanks in advance
Edited:
To my knowledge PC usage, for many/most of us, today, centers around a LAN/WAN. And, for years, I am not aware of single desktop tool/tray tool that presents what I would refer to as "intelligent" network awareness. This would have been applicable even on dial-up systems with/without LANs.

Even if there are reasons why we may NOT want general users to see the information, I am not aware of one an administrator would use as a single step to know where you are in the network.

A tray icon would make sense, as it would be ever present. And, I think a well defined tray tool, when mouse overed, could show current/last known IP and tell whether it is up/down.
for example, a color coded tray icon when mouse over could show the following without running involved scripts:This is the kind of information we administrators need as a starting point when we address problems. And, this would be done without typing any commands. And, it would also be useful when working with users remotely.
As simple as this seems, there must be a reason it hasn't been address this way.

Just a thought from someone lacking development skills, yet, trying to be helpful.

I don't know why there isn't such a tray tool available however you could request it as a feature for 5.3 or see if someone else would be up to it, as it is I just don't have to time to take on any projects from scratch right now as I explained to you earlier, however I will post up the IP Monitor tool for you, I just have to get it packaged.

Updated wireshark to 1.6.0 in first post. Maybe hopefully this will fix issues people were having with 1.4.6

Could you tell us what distros is it possible to use this with?

Tried this .pet in 431 and still got same error

it was compiled in 525 im moving today so i will compile the pcap libs for u tomorrow

Try this, if it winds up being like Wary and needing a bunch of other dependencies then you might be out of luck as far as using this version.

mediafire link down.. is there someone that can post a mirror?

wireshark 1.6.0.pet - mirror

http://www.filebox.tv/v1.php

Aitch

wireshark 1.6.5-2 built (and work only ) in Precise(ubuntu puppy) alpha 5.2.52 release, don't work in wary,quirky or previous lupu...
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