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Date:      Mon, 17 Apr 2000 09:14:49 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net>
Cc:        freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: watching traffic
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004170911520.86586-100000@green.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004170016340.23703-100000@home.offwhite.net>

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> I am running it on a computer on the my home network which is fed by a dsl
> through my FreeBSD ipnat gateway.  Can anyone tell me what tools I can use
> to get a detailed picture of my traffic?  Can anyone point out a good
> tutorial on this?
> 

Have you looked at tcpdump?  It does come with FreeBSD, and it allows you
to monitor arbitrary information on any network interface (except maybe
PLIP ;).  It's a powerful tool that, if that's what you're looking for, is
the most popular/useful network tool used for reverse-engineering protocols.

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 Brian Fundakowski Feldman           \  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!  /
 green@FreeBSD.org                    `------------------------------'



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