From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 3 12: 4:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pebkac.owp.csus.edu (pebkac.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2F53151BB for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 12:04:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Received: from owp.csus.edu (mail.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.247]) by pebkac.owp.csus.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA04221; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 12:04:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Message-ID: <38710103.AA8454FC@owp.csus.edu> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 20:05:23 +0000 From: Joseph Scott X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jon Rust Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tcpdump => ascii References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jon Rust wrote: > > I used to run all BSD/OS machines. The version of tcpdump included > with BSD/OS used a flag, -X, to display the output (specifically, the > payload) in human readable format. Very useful. FreeBSD's tcpdump > doesn't seem to have such a flag. I'm attempting to watch an SMTP > session to what's going wrong with a user's attempt to send mail. How > can I decode the output? Personally I've always used tcpshow to do this ( in the ports collection ). However after looking that man page for tcpdump I believe the -d option will do the same thing that you saw with -X -- Joseph Scott joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu Office Of Water Programs - CSU Sacramento To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message