dumping net traffic to log file

[Chuck Swiger]

Steel City Phantom wrote:
> Great, im making good progress here.  it seems like tcpdump only 
> captures the headers, is there a way to capture the entire packet, data 
> and all?

Use "-s 0".

tcpdump is closer to the equivalent of a network toolbox than merely a "swiss 
army" knife, but you may find that dumping to a file and reading that file 
from another process does better (via -i & -o flags), especially under higher 
traffic volume.

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-Chuck