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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!pith.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!cliffs.rs.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!uunet!in1.uu.net!198.82.160.249!solaris.cc.vt.edu!csugrad.cs.vt.edu!csugrad.cs.vt.edu!not-for-mail From: dlacroix@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (David M. LaCroix) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: BSDI ether sniffers Date: 21 Dec 1996 19:03:55 -0500 Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA Lines: 24 Message-ID: <59httb$ev7@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> References: <32BAF9C2.2410@iconnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: csugrad.cs.vt.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5469 Corporal Punishment (lchernyak@iconnet.com) wrote: : I have been looking around for a decent ethernet sniffer that runs : on BSDI. Sniffit when compiled for FreeBSD will work on BSDI machines : however I have experienced a problem with a particular BOX using an : ne0 -- NE2000 -- ether card. When I run the sniffer on this BSDI box, : the machine locks up completely or perhaps just locks out network : traffic. I cannot tell since I am coming in remotely. I anyone can point : me to another place where I can aquire source for a different sniffer : that will compile on BSDI please do so. Ethier that or show me how to : use tcpdump to produce output which will unravel the data in a packet to : plaintext ascii in a readable format. Thanks for the help. : P.S. Has anyone else experienced the same problems with sniffit : specifically or otherwise with attempting to run a sniffer on NE2000(ne) : interfaces? You do realize... when you run a "sniffer" remotely... its output goes over the wire... and will be "displayed" too... generating more traffic on the wire for your "sniffer" to see... -- dlacroix@cslab.vt.edu dlacroix@vt.edu