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Date:      Sun, 14 Jan 1996 14:38:11 -0500
From:      "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        "Sean T. Lamont" <lamont@abstractsoft.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Question for someone with FreeBSD kernel familiarity:
Message-ID:  <9601141938.AA04024@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9601130200.AA16017@zebu.serv.net>
References:  <9601130200.AA16017@zebu.serv.net>

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<<On Fri, 12 Jan 96 18:00:04 -0800, "Sean T. Lamont" <lamont@abstractsoft.com> said:

> I have need for my FreeBSD system to monitor traffic over the local ethernet
> for auditing purposes, not necessarily just towards the FreeBSD system but
> towards other systems on the local network. 

This is a job for the Berkeley Packet Filter.  See the bpf(4) and
tcpdump(1) man pages for more information.

-GAWollman

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