Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Installation problem on Solaris

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Igor Krugliak wrote:

> I have installed ethereal for Solaris, could you please advise what is
> the simple way to use it from command line?

Note that if you run Ethereal from the command line, it will attempt to 
display windows, and will quit if it fails to do so.

I.e., if by "from the command line" you mean you don't want a GUI, you'd 
have to use Tethereal, not Ethereal.

Which of those do you want?  And if you don't want a GUI, do you want to 
save the raw packets to a binary file, or have the packets displayed - 
and, if it's the latter, do you want just the packet summary line, or 
all the packet details, or do you want them dumped in the XML-based PSML 
or PDML formats?

> To capture SMPP traffic..

If you mean you want to capture *only* SMPP traffic, you'd need to know 
over what TCP port the traffic will run, in which case you can use a 
capture filter of "tcp port {port number}".