From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jan 25 15:42:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from naiad.eclipse.net.uk (naiad.eclipse.net.uk [195.188.32.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4B5E15213 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 15:42:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sthen@naiad.eclipse.net.uk) Received: by naiad.eclipse.net.uk (Postfix, from userid 475) id 6D8AE1339B; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 23:42:05 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 23:42:05 +0000 From: Stuart Henderson To: Archie Cobbs Cc: Stuart Henderson , Michael Robinson , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tcpdump Message-ID: <20000125234205.A6950@naiad.eclipse.net.uk> References: <388C79F9.1F129231@eclipse.net.uk> <200001252153.NAA66515@bubba.whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200001252153.NAA66515@bubba.whistle.com>; from archie@whistle.com on Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 01:53:18PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message