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Re: tcpdump trouble

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John W. Krahn (krahnj@acm.org)
Wed, 3 Jan 2001 14:19:04 -0800

Lance Couture wrote:
>
> 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?

To view the file try:

tcpdump -r /var/log/eth0dump | less

John 

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