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Date:      Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:39:49 -0400
From:      Steel City Phantom <scphantm@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dumping net traffic to log file
Message-ID:  <44C65765.4090401@yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <44C64486.3030005@mac.com>
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Great, im making good progress here.  it seems like tcpdump only 
captures the headers, is there a way to capture the entire packet, data 
and all?

thanks guys


Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Steel City Phantom wrote:
> [ ...top posting is confusing... ]
>>    im trying the command
>>    tcpdump -i em0 > traffic.log
>>    and i get the response
>>    tcpdump: (no devices found) /dev/bpf0: No such file or directory
>
> You'll need to recompile your kernel with "device bpf", although it is 
> normally enabled in the GENERIC kernel by default.
>




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