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From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: getting all the ethernet packets
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 02:41:06 GMT
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oldrich.cuda@st.mff.cuni.cz wrote:
> I'm begginer in FreeBSD (I used linux and so) and I need to get and filter all
> the packets going through my ethernet (I mean IP,NETBIOS,APPLE TOLK,IPX ..... everything)
> Is in FreeBSD any possible way how to do it ????

If you mean that you want to inspect packets going by on your network (rather
than having full protocol support in the O.S.), look at the man pages for
tcpdump(1) and bpf(4).