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Re: tcpdump trouble

Yakov N Miles (ynmiles@telus.net)
Wed, 03 Jan 2001 11:42:55 -0800

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Lance Couture wrote:
>
> 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?

tcpdump -i eth0 -l >somefile.dump

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