From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 13 16:01:04 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 893CA16A41F for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:01:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from reichert@numachi.com) Received: from meisai.numachi.com (meisai.numachi.com [198.175.254.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5BA5F43D62 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:01:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from reichert@numachi.com) Received: (qmail 27223 invoked from network); 13 Dec 2005 16:00:58 -0000 Received: from natto.numachi.com (198.175.254.216) by meisai.numachi.com with SMTP; 13 Dec 2005 16:00:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 6262 invoked by uid 1001); 13 Dec 2005 16:00:57 -0000 Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:00:57 -0500 From: Brian Reichert To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20051213160057.GH19179@numachi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Subject: Does tcpdump2xplot work? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:01:04 -0000 This may be pilot error, but for the life of me, I can't get tcpdump2xplot to work as advertised. Every lick of documentation I can find say to first create a netdump libpcap file of TCP packets as such: tcpdump -tt -S -w tcpdump.out tcp Then, near as I can tell, I should be able to use tcpdump2xplot -plot tcpdump.out or tcpdump2xplot < tcpdump.out But in either case, each packet is rejected with the message 'Malformed entry in dump file tcpdump.out'. Can someone clue me in? Yes, tcpdump2xplot is just perl code, but this tools seems like it's been around for a while... -- Brian Reichert 55 Crystal Ave. #286 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1725 USA BSD admin/developer at large