From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Feb 25 22:33: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com [24.6.21.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14FED37BF0A for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 22:32:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from conrads@cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) id AAA00550; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 00:32:50 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000226042158.4D0A4639C7@zagnut.hotpop.com> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 00:32:49 -0600 (CST) Organization: @Home Network From: Conrad Sabatier To: m Subject: RE: tcpdump ? Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 26-Feb-00 m wrote: > > Spencer Plantier wisely said: > >> >> Where do I find TCP dump for Freebsd? > > What is that? Tcpdump provides a running, realtime display (or "dump") of all of the networking (TCP/IP) traffic on your machine, allowing you to see what remote machines are talking to yours (and vice versa), as well as what they're "saying", among other things. The output is fairly dense and not very human-friendly. In fact, there's at least one package in the ports collection that will take the output of tcpdump and render it in a more useable fashion. Odd thing for someone in the newbies list to be looking for, come to think of it. :-) -- Conrad Sabatier http://members.home.net/conrads/ ICQ# 1147270 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message