Re: How to daemonize tcpdump

[Bruce M Simpson <bms () incunabulum net>]

Chris Pawelko wrote:
> Good afternoon,
> Has anybody heard of or had run tcpdump as a daemon?
> If so are there any instructions?
>   

You probably want bpft, not tcpdump.

I once hacked its predecessor trafd to export its counters via SNMP. 
It's a bit frustrating that RMON never really got opened up.
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