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Date:      Wed, 26 Jan 2000 11:28:29 +1100 (Australia/NSW)
From:      Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
To:        sthen@naiad.eclipse.net.uk (Stuart Henderson)
Cc:        archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs), sh@eclipse.net.uk (Stuart Henderson), robinson@netrinsics.com (Michael Robinson), freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tcpdump
Message-ID:  <200001260028.LAA10133@cairo.anu.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <20000125234205.A6950@naiad.eclipse.net.uk> from "Stuart Henderson" at Jan 25, 2000 11:42:05 PM

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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


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