[plug] network sniffer

[Christian]

Leon Brooks wrote:

> Yup, two.
> 
> 1. grab the source for tcpdump and add a -A (ASCII dump) option by
> modifying the -x option. Return your addition to the author so everyone
> benefits. You might want to consider turning unprintable characters in,
> say, a dot.
> 
> 2. wrap tcpdump in a PERL, shell, TCL or even gawk script to convert the
> hex to ASCII (pair the digits, prepend 0x, feed the result through a
> printf program/function).

There's also sniffit...

Regards,

Christian.

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