How to Install and Uninstall dropwatch Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: December 29,2024

1. Install "dropwatch" package

Please follow the guidance below to install dropwatch on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                dropwatch
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "dropwatch" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall dropwatch on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                dropwatch
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the dropwatch package on Kali Linux

Package: dropwatch
Version: 1.5.4-3
Installed-Size: 73
Maintainer: Debian QA Group
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libnl-3-200 (>= 3.2.7), libnl-genl-3-200 (>= 3.2.7), libpcap0.8 (>= 0.9.8), libreadline8 (>= 6.0)
Size: 19932
SHA256: d01fa31e142efdaa93c362de93a25e6f64afb2b0c2843a16583b0fbb8fc88c97
SHA1: 7edf6d166398d288e13dc4e305deb2227ce8edbe
MD5sum: 1a7f2601b9b204cc78a284b6e59b87aa
Description: tool for detecting and diagnosing dropped network packets
Dropwatch is a utility to help developers and system administrators to
diagnose problems in the Linux Networking stack, specifically their
ability to diagnose where packets are getting dropped. Dropwatch aims to
improve on the following shortcomings:
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1) Consolidation, or lack thereof. Currently, to check the status of
dropped packets in the kernel, one needs to check at least 3 places, and
possibly more: The /proc/net/snmp file, the netstat utility, the tc
utility, and ethtool. Dropwatch aims to consolidate several of those
checks into one tool, making it easier for a sysadmin or developer to
detect lost packets
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2) Clarity of information. Dropped packets are not obvious. A sysadmin
needs to be intimately familiar with each of the above tools to
understand which events or statistics correlate to a dropped packet and
which do not. While that is often self evident, it is also often not.
Dropwatch aims to improve that clarity.
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3) Ambiguity. Even when a dropped packet is detected, the causes for
those dropped packets are not always clear. Does a UDPInError mean the
application receive buffer was full, or does it mean its checksum was
bad? Dropwatch attempts to disambiguate the causes for dropped packets.
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4) Performance. Utilities can be written to aggregate the data in the
various other utilities to solve some of these problems, but such
solutions require periodic polling of several interfaces, which is far
from optimal, especially when lost packets are rare. This solution
improves on the performance aspect by implementing a kernel feature which
allows asynchronous notification of dropped packets when they happen.
Description-md5:
Homepage: https://github.com/nhorman/dropwatch
Section: net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/d/dropwatch/dropwatch_1.5.4-3_amd64.deb