dumping net traffic to log file
Alexey Karguine
alexey.karguine at gmail.com
Tue Jul 25 16:22:14 UTC 2006
Do you have string `device bpf ` in youe kernel config?
2006/7/25, Steel City Phantom <scphantm at yahoo.com>:
>
> im trying the command
> tcpdump -i em0 > traffic.log
> and i get the response
> tcpdump: (no devices found) /dev/bpf0: No such file or directory
> im doing it as root. this is a dell poweredge 2850 and we are using
> the standard gigabit network cards that came onboard. here are the
> details on the nic
> em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> options=b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
> inet 192.168.245.246 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast
> 192.168.245.255
> ether 00:13:72:56:aa:ca
> media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <half-duplex>)
> status: active
> in my dev directory em0 is mapped to net1. when i try the same
> command with net1, i get the same thing.
> Darrin Chandler wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 03:20:32PM -0400, Steel City Phantom wrote:
>
>
> i am troubleshooting an application and am having a hell of a time with
> it. with bsd 6.1 is there a way where i can dump all traffic coming
> over the nic to a log file so i can see exactly what is coming in?
>
>
> tcpdump works nicely for this. :)
>
>
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