From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 15 19:24:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA06645 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 19:24:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.my.domain (ivydp4.zilker.net [206.225.46.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA06638 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 19:24:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from marquard@localhost) by localhost.my.domain (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA12815; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 21:22:17 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 21:22:17 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199611160322.VAA12815@localhost.my.domain> From: Dave Marquardt To: Greg Lehey CC: jadeite@light.pomona.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Greg Lehey's message of Fri, 15 Nov 1996 12:05:17 +0100 (MET) Subject: Re: iptrace and ipreport References: <199611151105.MAA00592@freebie.lemis.de> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Greg" == Greg Lehey writes: Greg> jadeite writes: >> Does anyone know what is the FreeBSD equivalent of AIX's iptrace and >> ipreport? Greg> (Sorry for the delay). I haven't seen any other replies, probably Greg> because nobody knows what iptrace and ipreport are. From the name, it Greg> sounds as if tcpdump might be similar to iptrace: it traces a specific Greg> interface and shows the traffic. There are a number of options--read Greg> the man page for more info, or see volume I of TCP/IP Illustrated Greg> (Stevens) for some practical uses. Greg> ipreport says nothing to me. Could it be like netstat? You were right with your first guess. iptrace and ipreport together are like tcpdump. iptrace dumps packets to a trace log, and ipreport interprets them into human readable format. -Dave