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openbsd tcpdump + wireshark

Posted 02-27-2013 at 10:50 AM by rocket357 (Musings on technology, philosophy, and life in the corporate world)

I'm taking a class in a few days to delve into some deeper packet analysis than I've done before, and the instructor is a wireshark fanatic. Wireshark can be compiled on OpenBSD, but it has a reputation for security issues. I need a way to capture with tcpdump (privileged) and decode with wireshark (unprivileged) in realtime. Simple enough:

visudo (add "my_user ALL=/usr/sbin/tcpdump")
Download and compile wireshark (http://www.cromwell-intl.com/unix/co...n-openbsd.html...
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