[sclug] Monitoring a P2P appliacation

[Patrick Kirk]

I didn't read your mail properly.  Yes you are absolutely right and I'm 
downloading the win32 ethereal even as we speak.

Leon Ward wrote:

> Wow, What you dont have a single box on your network with any type of GUI on
> it! Not even a windows box! wow!
> 
> -Nard
> 
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Patrick Kirk [mailto:patrick at kirks.net]
>>Sent: 18 June 2003 12:38
>>To: Leon Ward
>>Cc: Sclug
>>Subject: Re: [sclug] Monitoring a P2P appliacation
>>
>>
>>That sounds sensible but sadly the 'workstation is a headless laptop 
>>under a pile of books in the corner.
>>
>>Leon Ward wrote:
>>
>>
>>>To make your live easier, move the file to a workstation 
>>
>>with ethereal on
>>
>>>it.
>>>The using the simple GUI you can inspect your capture.
>>>
>>>
>>>-Nard
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: Patrick Kirk [mailto:patrick at kirks.net]
>>>>Sent: 18 June 2003 11:30
>>>>To: lug at assursys.co.uk
>>>>Cc: Sclug
>>>>Subject: Re: [sclug] Monitoring a P2P appliacation
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>You may call me a thicko or weener but the fact that the 
>>
>>man page for 
>>
>>>>tethereal has 702 A4 pages (that's 41959 lines consisting of 87723 
>>>>words) has reduced my powers of concentration to those of the 
>>>>common or 
>>>>garden goldfish.
>>>>
>>>>Lets not mention that man libpcap and man tcpdump are both 
>>>>needed before 
>>>>even starting man tethereal :-()  And neither of those could 
>>>>be called 
>>>>bedtime reading for weeners either.
>>>>
>>>>So, does anyone know how I can write a filter file that 
>>
>>captures all 
>>
>>>>data of tcp port 6346 to 192.168.0.5 and outputs it to a 
>>
>>file called 
>>
>>>>phasar.log which will be no larger than 50MB.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>lug at assursys.co.uk wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Patrick Kirk wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I have a Debian firewall protecting a couple of Win XP 
>>>>
>>>>boxes behind a 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>firewall. The wife uses a little music swapping application 
>>>>
>>>>called Ares 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>which I'd like to monitor just to see how it works in terms of 
>>>>>>handshaking, etc.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Can anyone suggest a console based linux app that would 
>>
>>sit on the 
>>
>>>>>>firewall and save all messages passed between her PC and 
>>>>
>>>>the Internet?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>tethereal, part of ethereal? <http://www.ethereal.com>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Best Regards,
>>>>>Alex.
>>>>
>>>>-- 
>>>>
>>>>Best regards,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Patrick Kirk
>>>>Mobile: 07876 560 646
>>>>
>>>>
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Patrick Kirk
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