Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 00:36:17 +1100 From: Michael Vince <mv@roq.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: 6-stable and Tcpdump problems Message-ID: <440997D1.8070002@roq.com>
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I am using the latest FreeBSD 6-stable and I am still having trouble dumping tcpdump in clear text data. In FreeBSD 5.x using 'tcpdump -A -s 0 -i sk0' I would always give me a full screen Ascii dump of current network data to the screen but now it just shows everything in Hex. I submitted a send-pr on this sometime around 6.0 release but it never got anywhere. If you use the same command on 5.x it works fine. I found the closest thing I can get is using tcpdump -XX -s 0 -i sk0 which dumps both Hex and Acsii anything with the '-A' which is normally the important flag always results in Hex dumps. Installing ngrep from ports and doing 'ngrep -d sk0' gives me the result I want but I have found over time that ngrep often fails to work depending on when I track 6-stable, I would prefer to use tcpdump always working. Can any one agree with me there is a bug here? I have the same result on multiple machines. Cheers, Mike
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