Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 16:51:22 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ipfw question Message-ID: <5517225A.5090702@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <mf7034$994$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <55122B21.60905@hiwaay.net> <55162284.6040806@hiwaay.net> <D4C3522A-97EE-4D35-9AF1-D122BC6D9165@gmail.com> <5516BB73.7010108@hiwaay.net> <26D37EC0-1C91-4009-A5C6-7B40CDE4099B@gmail.com> <5516BF68.9040806@hiwaay.net> <3782D86A-E280-4C01-B492-D1982D372808@gmail.com> <5516C210.6090806@hiwaay.net> <07C9255C-5CDA-4C96-A227-EB28FC836BF5@gmail.com> <5516C8CB.4050505@hiwaay.net> <mf7034$994$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On 03/28/15 14:40, Michael Powell wrote: > William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > [snip] >>>> "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war >>>> ever devised by man." >>>> -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr. > And, oddly enough after many, many years mine still works fine. > >>> Wireshark is pretty but requires X11. It also does a better job of making >>> the output understandable. >>> >>> tcpdump should be included in the base system and is text so works >>> without a GUI. You used to be able to take a tcpdump output file and feed >>> it to Wireshark for viewing. > [snip] >> Very well, I have wireshark already installed (this is a desktop box), >> I'll poke around & see what I find. Thanks :-). >> > tcpdump can save output in a file which Wireshark can import and read. Both > have filtering capabilities, so you can use tcpdump to capture everything > and use Wireshark to winnow out of the spew what you find interesting. Or, > if you already know pretty much which traffic you want to see it's often > easier and quicker (come time to view in Wireshark) to do some basic > filtering with tcpdump's myriad command line switches first. I do this on > interfaces of remote machines which are servers and have no X, copying the > file to the desktop with Wireshark. This can improve signal-to-noise ratio. > The same information is present, but Wireshark is just better presentation- > wise and can perform some analysis that tcpdump can not. > > -Mike > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > P.S.: After a few min. of running tcpdump, I notice traffic to & from 'pperikov.static.corbina.ru.9001', nobody I know or recognize :-/ .... Does this ring a bell w/ anyone ? -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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