How To Install tcpreen on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcpreen on CentOS 7.
What is tcpreen
TCPreen is a simple tool to monitor and analyze data transmitted between clients and servers through connection-oriented streams data such as a TCP sessions; it supports TCP over either IPv4 or IPv6. This tool focuses on the data stream (software/socket layer), not on the lower level transmission protocol as packet sniffers do.
We can use yum or dnf to install tcpreen on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tcpreen.
Install tcpreen on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install tcpreen using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tcpreen
Install tcpreen on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install tcpreen using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tcpreen
How To Uninstall tcpreen on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the tcpreen package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tcpreen
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcpreen on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
