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Date:      Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:23:24 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ipfw2 logs to bpf (was Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ipfw ipfw2.c...) 
Message-ID:  <9760.1135081404@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:42:18 PST." <20051213184218.GC55657@funkthat.com> 

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In message <20051213184218.GC55657@funkthat.com>, John-Mark Gurney writes:

>I have patches that teach tcpdump how to understand divert sockets...
>(I forget if I write the packets back to continue the chain or if you
>have to use tee..)  This has the advantage of preventing yet another
>device in the system.. though it does prevent normal users from being
>able to watch the traffic...
>
>Anyone interested?

I guess you can do the same thing with "ipfwpcap | tcpdump -r -" so
I wonder if it isn't wiser to leave tcpdumps sources alone, in particular
given that it is 3rd party software ?

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