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Lance Couture (couture@intergate.ca)
Wed, 3 Jan 2001 09:54:23 -0800
Hello,
I am trying to monitor traffic on my firewall using 'tcpdump' (homepage:
http://www.it.kth.se/edu/gru/Internet/tcpdump.html), however I am having
trouble getting it to create a file that is readable. Here is the syntax I
am using:
tcpdump -i eth0 -w /var/log/eth0dump (... being run as 'root')
This does generate a file in /var/log called 'eth0dump', but it is
completely illegible in any text editor - all that is in the file is
seemingly random, garbage, characters, but if I chose not to output to a
file, only parsed to the screen, everything is fine.
Does anyone have some insight as to what I am doing wrong, or how I can fix
this?
Thanks in advance,
Lance Couture
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