tcpdump(1) filter by date

2008-11-18 Thread Eduardo Meyer
Hello, I have a kind big tcpdump file, which has data from the last week. I want to dump information based on date. Can I do it without generating a full output and later parse the headers? Say, I want to filter by date in the expression filter and not with tcpdump -r dumpfile | awk

Re: tcpdump(1) filter by date

2008-11-18 Thread David Wolfskill
[Cross-post to -questions elided, since I saw the message on -stable, and I'd like to discourage gratuitous cross-posting. dhw] On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 07:30:39PM -0200, Eduardo Meyer wrote: Hello, I have a kind big tcpdump file, which has data from the last week. I want to dump information

Re: tcpdump(1) filter by date

2008-11-18 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I don't know whether or not this has been fixed, but I found that I had to recompile tcpslice and/or tcpdump to deal with files larger than 4 gig (or maybe 2 gig). I suppose it's a better situation than wireshark. After a few million packets, it falls over because it makes the widgets in the