FreeBSD might be much better than Linux.
with *BSDs you can run wireshark as a common user just changing the
owner/group and permissions of the various /dev/bpf* . AFAIK in Linux
you must be root to be able to capture. (That might have changed, but
I'm not aware).
Luis
On 5/9/07, Jeff Beyer <jbeyer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm going to purchase a couple Linux laptops for the sole purpose of
capturing network traffic for long periods of time using Wireshark. My
objective are first and foremost stability and second is ease of use. What
Linux platform best supports these objectives? I know Wireshark is
available for the Fedora Core 5 platform. Is Wireshark available for either
the Fedora Core 6 or Ubuntu 7.04 platform?
Regards,
Jeff
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