And a lot of the Linux tools.Įverything can probably be done with tools written for Microsoft Windows, such as WinDump for tcpdump, putty or tunnelier for ssh, cygwin for command line tools such as grep, sed, vi, etc. Unfortunately as my day to day work shifted more and more away from technical stuff, I had to use Microsoft Windows software (such as the Microsoft Office programs) more and more often, up to the point where it became more convenient to just boot into Microsoft Windows.īut on Microsoft Windows, I really miss a good terminal. The WinPcap devpack does provide the necessary lib files for the cygwin build environment. For the Microsoft stuff I used wine or vmware. You can clone these repositories with the following commands: git clone git clone You can then configure and compile the source via the normal GNU autoconf method. Libpcap as-is does not compile within cygwin. In the lab, using a packet sniffer such as tcpdump or Wireshark.
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Saying farewell to the Linux desktop - but not quite.įor a long time I always booted into Linux, using gnome as my desktop. Install the Cygwin software on a Windows machine and use ssh in rxvt to connect to a.