Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 15:34:22 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting ethernet packets content under FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199711212234.PAA15870@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199711212231.OAA18274@stennis.ca.sandia.gov> References: <199711212146.OAA15613@mt.sri.com> <199711212231.OAA18274@stennis.ca.sandia.gov>
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> > Is it possible to easily? I'm trying to debug a protocol, and w/out the > > contents of the data being sent in the packets it's awful hard to do. > > Is there anyway of dumping out the actual packet contents somewhere > > instead of dumping out the packet headers, which are less than useful > > for upper-layer TCP/IP protocol debugging. > > Does "tcpdump -x -e -s 1500" not do what you want? Probably, I just couldn't figure out how do to it. :) > The tcpdump maintainers deliberately left out an ASCII packet-printer, but > coding one up is pretty easy if that's what you need. I can always run it through hexdump. :) Nate
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