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Date:      Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:21:47 -0400
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Steel City Phantom <scphantm@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dumping net traffic to log file
Message-ID:  <44C6613B.2000208@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <44C65765.4090401@yahoo.com>
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Steel City Phantom wrote:
> Great, im making good progress here.  it seems like tcpdump only 
> captures the headers, is there a way to capture the entire packet, data 
> and all?

Use "-s 0".

tcpdump is closer to the equivalent of a network toolbox than merely a "swiss 
army" knife, but you may find that dumping to a file and reading that file 
from another process does better (via -i & -o flags), especially under higher 
traffic volume.

-- 
-Chuck



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