[plug] Monitoring the Unix domain network

Brad Campbell brad at wasp.net.au
Fri Jun 3 13:06:06 WST 2005


Peter F Bradshaw wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> I need to monitor some trafic on the Unix domain network. That is I need
> something like tcpdump that works on the Unix domain. Does anybody know
> of a utility?

I have not found one.. I do it by stracing one of the processes and filtering the log.. nasty, but 
it works. I guess you must be able to do it, but then.... how? No interfaces as such..
Can you just place the kernel into promiscuous mode ? ;)

Brad
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