snoop (Sun styly) for bsd ?

Jez Hancock jez.hancock at munk.nu
Thu Jan 29 13:32:30 PST 2004


On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 07:31:16PM +0000, Julian Holley wrote:
> Hi all - does anyone know about the program 'snoop' (Sun microsystems
> fame)  available for BSD - basically all I want is a click or beep on
> network activity out of my machine - I'm not after a bulky analaysis
> program - just somat simple to run in the back ground ? - any ideas much
> appreciated, Julian.

As mentioned, tcpdump(1) is the closest to solaris snoop on FreeBSD.

Another useful tool - not too bulky - is trafshow which can be found in
ports:

/usr/ports/net/trafshow

Good luck :P

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