[sclug] Monitoring a P2P appliacation

[Leon Ward]

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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