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Date:      Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:02:22 -0400
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
To:        R J <rjohanne@wnk.hamline.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tcpdump/snort to capture chat sessions
Message-ID:  <20080610120222.9e2760fe.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806100940230.24255@wnk.hamline.edu>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806100940230.24255@wnk.hamline.edu>

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In response to R J <rjohanne@wnk.hamline.edu>:

> I am trying to use tcpdump (or snort, but they are both behaving the same 
> in this case) to capture all the lines or contents of an msn 
> chat session, the actual conversation.  I am getting partial output; i.e, 
> I'll only get half of a sentence, and I don't see the rest of the lines. 
> And ofcourse, alot of it seems to be hex or obfuscated html?
> 
> What switches do I need to capture the entire lines of text?

Don't know about snort, but with tcpdump use -s0

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Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.
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