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Date:      Sat, 24 Oct 1998 02:09:41 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com>
Cc:        Robert Butler <robertbutler@yahoo.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Anybody know if there is any decoding capability in tcpdump? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02.9810240208060.17054-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <E0zW9r2-0005Bb-00@spawn.nectar.com>

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On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Jacques Vidrine wrote:
> ``tcpshow's output is simular to Sun Solaris's snoop(1M) command for
>   network packet capture and inspection.''
> 
> Note however that it is not real time.  It reads a tcpdump packet 
> output file.

While mostly corect, you can use tcpdump and tcpshow in concert over a
pipe to effect realtime display.  While it is somewhat more cumbersome
than snoop, I kind of like having 2 simple (sic) commands rather than 1
large one.

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