From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jan 25 16:29:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from cairo.anu.edu.au (cairo.anu.edu.au [150.203.224.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60CEC14FCE for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 16:28:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from avalon@cairo.anu.edu.au) Received: (from avalon@localhost) by cairo.anu.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA10133; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 11:28:29 +1100 (EST) From: Darren Reed Message-Id: <200001260028.LAA10133@cairo.anu.edu.au> Subject: Re: tcpdump To: sthen@naiad.eclipse.net.uk (Stuart Henderson) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 11:28:29 +1100 (Australia/NSW) Cc: archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs), sh@eclipse.net.uk (Stuart Henderson), robinson@netrinsics.com (Michael Robinson), freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000125234205.A6950@naiad.eclipse.net.uk> from "Stuart Henderson" at Jan 25, 2000 11:42:05 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In some mail from Stuart Henderson, sie said: > > 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 get tcpdump from www.tcpdump.org. They already support an ASCII dump with HEX (-X). Darren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message