Re: dissect TCP/IP flow

["Jamie Riden" <jamie.riden () gmail com>]

On 20/07/07, João Henrique Ferreira de Freitas <joaohf () gmail com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Anybody have a good how to, tutorial or papers about dissect a TCP/IP
> flow?
>
> The background is: I have a client/server application and need
> decode/dissect the communication. The goal is make a tool to interact
> with
> the server application, send commands and request operations.

tcpflow is useful to start off with.  It will unpack live capture or
tcpdump files into flows.

http://www.circlemud.org/~jelson/software/tcpflow/

(apt-get install tcpflow for ubuntu/debian users)

Or 'follow TCP stream' option under Wireshark can be helpful too.

cheers,
Jamie
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Jamie Riden / jamesr () europe com / jamie () honeynet org uk
UK Honeynet Project: http://www.ukhoneynet.org/

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