[LUAU] tcpdump style sniffer

victory at websharx.com victory at websharx.com
Mon Feb 8 19:20:03 PST 1999


Here's a page that details a bunch of packet sniffers (including tcpdump and
sniffit).

I have sniffit installed on my RH4.1 setup and it works like a charm,
especially in 'interactive mode'.


http://www.btc.gatech.edu/net/management/linux/monitoring.html

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>From: George Toft <LinuxAdvocate at iname.com>
>To: luau at luau.hi.net
>Subject: Re: [LUAU] tcpdump style sniffer
>Date: Sun, Feb 7, 1999, 9:29 AM
>

> bbraun at sparcy.synack.net wrote:
>>
>> sniffit is a fairly nice packet sniffer that will display the data
>> portion of packets in ascii.  Forget the URL, but it's easilly
>> searchable.
>
> Thanks, Rob.
>
>
>> BTW, this is sent via an xterm on a MacIIci running OpenBSD connected
>> to the house lan via a proxy arping ppp connection to a linux pc,
>> and out to the net via an IP masquerading linux gateway with a dialup.
>> (Just got this working.  =)
>
> Does the phrase "Over the top" mean anything?  Most people
> think that of me when they find out I have a computer named
> after each Island of Hawaii on my LAN at home.
>
> George
> 



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