On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 01:29:40PM -0400, Dan McDonald wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 10:18:22AM -0700, Joseph Freemaker wrote:
> > Want to capture (for specific port #s) the loopback interface (lo0) tcp 
> > message flow with the complete message body.
> > 
> > Is this possible with DTrace? 
> 
> No.

This is possible with DTrace - it is just hard to do (which I'm sure Dan
knows).

The DTrace Network provider project will make it much easier (once it is
integrated), the prototype of which was tracing loopback traffic almost
a year ago.

> Your best bet in this regard is Project Clearview, which will, among many
> other things, allow the snooping of loopback.  Check out their page here:
> 
>       http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/clearview/

Yes, this probably is your best bet if you want to type,

        snoop -o out port #

and then process the file afterwards (which is handy to do).

Brendan

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Brendan
[CA, USA]
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