Re: [tcpdump-workers] How to daemonize tcpdump

2008-05-28 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Bruce M Simpson wrote: I once hacked its predecessor trafd to export its counters via SNMP. It's a bit frustrating that RMON never really got opened up. Actually someone has rolled a libpcap and Net-SNMP based RMON module: http://www.nongnu.org/ramon/ Seems quite pre-alpha though. - This

Re: [tcpdump-workers] How to daemonize tcpdump

2008-05-26 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Chris Pawelko wrote: Good afternoon, Has anybody heard of or had run tcpdump as a daemon? If so are there any instructions? You probably want bpft, not tcpdump. I once hacked its predecessor trafd to export its counters via SNMP. It's a bit frustrating that RMON never really got opened

[tcpdump-workers] How to daemonize tcpdump

2008-05-23 Thread Chris Pawelko
Good afternoon, Has anybody heard of or had run tcpdump as a daemon? If so are there any instructions? Thanks, cp. - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

Re: [tcpdump-workers] How to daemonize tcpdump

2008-05-23 Thread Guy Harris
On May 23, 2008, at 12:44 PM, Chris Pawelko wrote: Has anybody heard of or had run tcpdump as a daemon? If so are there any instructions? Run[ning] tcpdump as a daemon is too general of an operation to have a single simple set of instructions; do you want to have: a daemon that starts