Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 21:57:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Dru <genisis@istar.ca> To: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Can this be done? Message-ID: <20010918215253.F81773-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> In-Reply-To: <20010918203414.A29311@execpc.com>
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On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Doug Poland wrote: > Sorry for the cryptic header but I can't describe what I'm > trying to do in a small subject field. > > I'm looking for a tool that can show me tcp traffic. > For example, I've got a windoze biff mail checker. The > program doesn't connect to the imap server correctly and > I cannot tell what commands the biff client is sending to > the imap server. > > If I had a tool that could capture and assemble the tcp > traffic, I could see what is passing between my imap client > and imap server. > > I've tried to get tcpdump to work but it doesn't appear that > it can assemble packets, just reports on the packets themselves. > > Is there a tool that can do this? Hi Doug, How are you running tcpdump? By default it won't show the full packet, but you can specify the packet size e.g. set it to maximum Ethernet size. But I also second the motion for Ethereal, it's pretty cool. Some articles on using both here, assuming the Net is still up :( http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/03/21/FreeBSD_Basics.html http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/16/FreeBSD_Basics.html HTH, Dru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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