[plug] TCP Sniffer

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.smileys.net
Wed Oct 18 15:46:48 WST 2000


> Phillip Steege wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a TCP sniffer, like tcpdump or snoop, for a Mandrake 7.1
> system?

Yes. The tcpdump command works quite nicely. (-: You do have to be root to run
it.

There are other related tools shipped with Mandrake such as tcpdmatch. You might
also like to look at iptraf for something a little less involved.

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