Does tcpdump2xplot work?

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Tue Dec 13 10:01:53 PST 2005


In the last episode (Dec 13), Brian Reichert said:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 11:20:49AM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote:
> > Other docs say I have to do this:
> > 
> >   tcpdump -tt -S -r tcpdump.out | tcpdump2xplot
> > 
> > But, I get the same error...
> 
> I've traced down the issue: tcpdump now creates lines like:
> 
>    <id> IP <to> > <from> ...
> 
> And tcpdump2xplot doesn't want to see that 'IP' field.  I'll try to get a
> patch cobbled...

You'll probably get better results using the tcptrace port, which reads
capture files directly.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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