Re: [PATCH] --packet-trace direction setting

[Diman Todorov <diman.todorov () univie ac at>]

On Nov 11, 2007, at 5:49 AM, Kris Katterjohn wrote:

> Hey everyone!
>
> I've attached a patch to set a desired direction for --packet-trace.
>
> Many times I've wanted to do a --packet-trace and then needed to grep
> out (-v) "RCVD" or "SENT", which can get annoying :)
>
> --packet-trace=in will only print packets that are received
>
> --packet-trace=out will only print packets that are sent
>
> --packet-trace=both is just to give the default an option
>
> Of course, it won't work for connect() (-sT) scans.
>
> I would've preferred --packet-trace=sent for outbound packets, but
> didn't want to use "recv" or "rcvd" for inbound packets as it'd be
> confusing and "received" is too long.  But this is similar to
> libpcap's pcap_setdirection() which uses PCAP_D_IN and PCAP_D_OUT so I
> think it can work :)
>
> Please let me know what you think!

in case there are no objections within a reasonable amount of time (1  
day) I will commit the patch and update the docs.

cheers,
Diman

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