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Date:      Tue, 25 Jan 2000 23:42:05 +0000
From:      Stuart Henderson <sthen@naiad.eclipse.net.uk>
To:        Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
Cc:        Stuart Henderson <sh@eclipse.net.uk>, Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tcpdump
Message-ID:  <20000125234205.A6950@naiad.eclipse.net.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200001252153.NAA66515@bubba.whistle.com>; from archie@whistle.com on Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 01:53:18PM -0800
References:  <388C79F9.1F129231@eclipse.net.uk> <200001252153.NAA66515@bubba.whistle.com>

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On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 01:53:18PM -0800, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> Stuart Henderson writes:
> > >  * (BTW, please don't send us patches to print the packet out in ascii)
> > > 
> > > I've just finished with my latest version of such patches.  Does that make
> > > me some sort of E133t H4x0r or something?
> > 
> > Not really, since the original tcpdump will spit forth ascii without 
> > much trouble anyway. (Your mod is better though, since you lose the decode
> > of packet headers if you just do this by setting -w-).
> 
> So.. how do you get tcpdump to spit forth ascii?

Through a pipeline, using -l to line-buffer the output:

# tcpdump -w - -s 2000 -l * | strings



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