From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 8 12:02:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA17225 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 12:02:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from longstreet.larc.nasa.gov (longstreet.larc.nasa.gov [128.155.25.82]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA17219 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 12:02:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from branson@localhost) by longstreet.larc.nasa.gov (8.6.11/8.6.11) id PAA04437; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 15:04:14 -0400 From: Branson Matheson Message-Id: <199604081904.PAA04437@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov> Subject: Re: Violently pulling out my hair To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 15:04:14 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Doug White" at Apr 8, 96 11:55:54 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > On Mon, 8 Apr 1996, Branson Matheson wrote: > > > Ok... tcpdump manpage gently describes the wonderful way to montior > > packets from an ethernet address as follows: > > > > ether host ehost > > True if either the ethernet source or destination address is > > ehost. > > > So I tried: > > > > root@garion > tcpdump ether host gw.hq.ferg.com > > tcpdump: only ethernet/FDDI supports link-level host name > > > > Grrr... > > Use an IP address instead. Look in arp -a and find the ether-to-ip > mapping. Heh... there stems the problem.. this is an hp telnet server that We are troubleshooting.. it will not boot... and soo we wanted to see the packets that might be comming from it looking for boot information.. things like it's ip for instance ;-) - branson PS> This is a virgin 2.1 installation from the cd. -- ======================================================================== branson matheson | branson@widomaker.com Ferguson SysAdmin | http://widomaker.com/~branson