thanks Jason. netcat seems suited for this. I will check this out.
Best Regards, Mubeesh On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Jason C. Wells <j...@speakeasy.net> wrote: > On 03/01/11 08:07, Mubeesh ali wrote: >> >> Hi , >> >> >> We do wifi troubleshooting and are planning to use kismet for wireless >> captures. It produces a file that will be written into every 300 >> secs(configurable value ,we use 30 secs). While comparing with a >> expensive windows sniffer like Omnipeek the only disadvantage of >> this free tool is we have to continoulsly do tcpdump -r >> <filename.pcap> as the file changes. same with wireshark we need to >> hit the refresh button. >> >> Is there something equivalent to 'tail' for changing files for >> reading pcap files ? Appreciate any suggestions. >> > netcat? > -- Best Regards, Mubeesh Ali.V.M _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"