Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:43:36 -0500 From: "Stephen L. Martin" <freequest@networkiv.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any way to get an audio representation of packet flow? Message-ID: <20050125194336.GA34029@mx.networkiv.net> In-Reply-To: <20050125090405.GW46670@kirk.dlee.org> References: <20050125090405.GW46670@kirk.dlee.org>
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You could do this with a small Perl script:
tcpdump -nl icmp | perl -e '$|;while(<>){print "\a";}'
This will give you a beep on your PC speaker every time it sees an ICMP
packet.
Hope this helps.
-Stephen
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 04:04:05AM -0500, Doug Lee wrote:
> Ok, this may be odd to many, but here's what I want:
>
> I like tcpdump's powerful ways of selecting and analyzing specific
> portions of packet traffic, but I want a real-time way to represent
> the results. I am blind, so graphs don't help. <grin> Usually all I
> want to know is the pattern of packet match frequency vs. time, so a
> little click for each matching packet would translate nicely into what
> I'm looking for.
>
> My normal tactic involves directing output from tcpdump to /dev/audio
> or even /dev/pcaudio:
>
> tcpdump -l -n [... rules for traffic ...] >/dev/audio
>
> is the first trick I tried. Problem: It causes me to get kernel
> errors like "runt packet" and such, presumably because it adds too
> mmuch overhead to packet processing somehow. (This is a P166; maybe
> that problem wouldn't exist on faster hardware?)
>
> My next trick was like
>
> tcpdump -s 1 -w /dev/audio [... rules for traffic ...]
>
> No errors this time, but the output of -w is buffered regardless of -l
> (which normally makes a lot of sense, of course), so it wasn't very
> real-time.
>
> I currently run FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE, but I'd be interested in any
> solutions requiring 5.x features as well, for future planning.
>
> Please Cc me if you have any ideas.
>
> Thanks much.
>
>
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