SYsynergy20·May 2, 2022
reminds me of termshark at https://github.com/gcla/termshark also written in golang
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termshark
A terminal UI for tshark, inspired by Wireshark
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6 sourcesTermshark v2.2.0 released now with vim support
1 points · Open discussionTermshark – A terminal user-interface for tshark
1 points · Open discussionhi isostatic - sorry for the trouble :( I had hoped that compiling it would be quick and reliable. By default termshark will be installed in ~/go/bin/ - though it sounds like you have it compiled, it's just not running. Send me a message if you like and I'll see if I can get it working for you. There are also pre-compiled binaries at https://github.com/gcla/termshark/releases
In Termshark – A terminal UI for tshark, inspired by WiresharkMy first port of call tends to be tcpdump, with various filters and greps to pick out what I want. Usually I'm looking at RTP streams [0], so I run it through some perl to decode [1]
For wider monitoring, at key points on the network I use ntop [2] to see what's
If I want a quick overview of a given machine I load up iftop [3], which isn't very thrilling on my desktop at the moment
[0] https://i.imgur.com/O9ekuPt.png
[1] https://i.imgur.com/x9l0UNd.png
[2] https://i.imgur.com/gFXAxwa.png
[3] https://i.imgur.com/vmpgR6i.png
All of these are trivial to install (except for the RTP perl script which I have as a custom apt-gettable package) and don't require non-standard interpreters and package managers.
Nethertheless I went to get this. I had to install 540MB of support files just to run "go get github.com/gcla/termshark/cmd/termshark". Stil
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l it compliles. Then I run it, and it shows bugger all, I suspect I need to find and install more libraries (tcell, gowid), which themselves require massive downloads.
It's simply not worth it, it's like going back in time 20 years.
Link to the project in github [0], as the site seems to be down due to the hug of death.
[0] https://github.com/gcla/termshark
In Termshark – A terminal UI for tshark, inspired by Wireshark