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Date:      Thu, 11 Sep 1997 16:27:43 -0700
From:      "Eric A. Davis" <edavis@nas.nasa.gov>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Hackers <FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: network programming. 
Message-ID:  <199709112327.QAA10762@shark.nas.nasa.gov>
In-Reply-To: chuckr's message of Thu, 11 Sep 1997 19:06:26 -0400.<Pine.BSF.3.96.970911190130.2260C-100000@Journey2.mat.net> 

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You want tcpdump located at /usr/sbin/tcpdump.


On Thu, 11 Sep 1997 19:06:26 -0400 (EDT) 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.
>
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