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Date:      Fri, 17 May 96 17:47:19 -0500 (CDT)
From:      rmtodd@servalan.servalan.com (Richard Todd)
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: hrmm
Message-ID:  <m0uKYJ3-000f7GC@servalan.servalan.com>
References:  <Pine.SOL.3.93.960517004231.6482A-100000@dazed.nol.net> <13423.832320033@time.cdrom.com>

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In servalan.mailinglist.fbsd-hackers you write:

>> I've been sitting here watching ICMPs for kicks and I had an idea though I
>> can't say as how useful it might be... I was thinking of a kernel level ICMP
>> logging utility that would be set using sysctl with appx 3 different levels
>> of logging. 

>Or how about this idea:

>Have a general purpose packet-filter device (call it, say, bpfilter)
>and a program to read from it in whatever detail you wish.  We could
>call that program `tcpdump' :-)

Or even have a program that listens on a raw socket for ICMP packets and 
syslog what it finds, and call it 'icmpinfo'. :-)

(Yes there is such a program, and no, you don't need bpf to look at ICMP packets
that are sent to your own system, opening a raw socket suffices.  Shouldn't
be too difficult to make icmpinfo work on FreeBSD...)



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