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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:10:22 -0700
From: Darrin Chandler <dwchandler@stilyagin.com>
To: Steel City Phantom <scphantm@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: dumping net traffic to log file
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On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 03:20:32PM -0400, Steel City Phantom wrote:
> i am troubleshooting an application and am having a hell of a time with 
> it.  with bsd 6.1 is there a way where i can dump all traffic coming 
> over the nic to a log file so i can see exactly what is coming in?

tcpdump works nicely for this. :)

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