You may want to try ethereal <http://ethereal.zing.org> it probably has the
best set of decodes of any packet sniffer you'll find. (There's a GUI and
text version as well). It sits on top of the same pcap library the tcpdump
uses and you can use the same filters.



Martin Visser
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Yap [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 17 August 2000 5:04 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SLUG] TCPDUMP.. 


>tcpdump -x \( host 10.10.0.69 and port 21 \)
>
>Also, check out tcpdump2ascii - sometimes it's a lot better to 
>look at ascii instead of hex!

What you mean the hex dump doesn't look to you like the characters if
you stare hard enough, a la The Matrix? :-)

(Ancient defintion of a Unix guru: writes device drivers with cat(1)).


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