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Date:      Fri, 12 Sep 1997 10:09:38 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Brian Mitchell <brian@firehouse.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Hackers <FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: network programming.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970912100935.17492C-100000@Journey2.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970912054532.16712A-100000@shell.firehouse.net>

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On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Brian Mitchell wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Chuck Robey wrote:
> 
> > I have to do my very first network programming, a UDP client+server, and I
> > was wondering if anyone knows of how I could go about intercepting
> > something sent to a UDP socket, so I could use it for troubleshooting?  I
> > don't want to receive it (else the client would never get it), just to
> > monitor what's going on.  This is my home machine, and I (obviously) have
> > root here.
> > 
> > I don't want the application written for me, just a tool I could use to
> > capture what's going on between my buggy server and my buggy client.
> > 
> > Thanks for any hints, guys.
> 
> man 3 pcap, man 4 bpf
> 
> 
> 
> 

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