Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 00:15:10 +1100 From: Joe Shevland <J_Shevland@TurnAround.com.au> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Cc: Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com>, Robert Butler <robertbutler@yahoo.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anybody know if there is any decoding capability in tcpdump? Message-ID: <3631D2DE.94BFC754@TurnAround.com.au> References: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9810240208060.17054-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > 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. > > -- > | Matthew N. Dodd | 78 280Z | 75 164E | 84 245DL | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | > | winter@jurai.net | This Space For Rent | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | > | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message Tad trivial, but thanks to whoever made a reference to the port Ethereal the other day. I downloaded the latest version, compiled and installed smoothly with about 2 commands, and seems an excellent little tool for packet capture if you've got the Gimp Toolkit and X installed. I especially liked the TCP stream follow option for looking at TCP dumps. -- Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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