For the past week and a half of a networking fundamentals class I just finished Tuesday, we were learning the basics of Wireshark. So far the biggest problem I've found with it is that I couldn't find a version for Linux so I could use it on my laptop (couldn't get it to work on wine either).

[–] gerdesj@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Which distro do you use? Ubuntu, Debian, Arch and Gentoo have packages and I've no doubt that most others do too. On Linux you should not have to go to random websites and download stuff and faff around - use the built in distribution packages. If you are not sure what you've got try this at a command prompt and read the output:

$ cat /etc/os-release

As a last resort, you can run tcpdump on nearly anything and dump to .pcap, transfer that and then open that in Wireshark. Note that modern Windows has a OpenSSH client and server available so getting files around via scp is a doddle. Windows can even do NFS too and there is of course Samba - but CIFS/SMB can be tricksy.

[–] greywolf0x1@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There's also a flatpak package for it. Wireshark On Flathub

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

I swear I have selective male blindness because I found it in the package manager for my distro after doing a quick search command.