[Techtalk] network tools

[Laurel Fan]

On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 06:09:23PM +0200, Hamster wrote: 
> 1. Packet sniffing. I know tcpdump is very popular, but from what I
> can tell, it only looks at packet headers. What utilities are there
> to actually capture and look at entire packets?

To make tcpdump look at entire packets:

tcpdump -s 0 -x

-s 0 means capture entire packets (it defaults to only capturing 68
bytes).

-x means print the packet in hex.

Or:

tcpdump -s 0 -X

-X means print the packet in hex and ascii.

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