[sclug] Monitoring a P2P appliacation

[Patrick Kirk]

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.

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Best regards,


Patrick Kirk
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