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Re: [PEN-TEST] tcpdump question ?


From: Jose Nazario <jose () BIOCSERVER BIOC CWRU EDU>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 22:10:22 -0500

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, cdowns wrote:

what is he best tool to decode a tcpdump -s 0 -w sniff_test -i eth0
-vvv session ? thanks in advance

depends on specifics, but often ethereal is AWESOME due its protocol
decodes. it reads tcpdump files just fine. :)

otherwise i usually start slogging through the tcpdump output in
perl/awk/grep. i'm a fan of too much data that way.

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