gabriel rosenkoetter on Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:12:07 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] trapping web site communications


On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 04:09:37PM -0400, Jaiwant Mulik wrote:
> Also, if you want to look into the *payload* of each packet then using
> the graphical "ethereal" tool might be better.
> 
> You can select filter options from its drop down menu.

How is this better than tcpdump's -w?

Why would you *want* some GUI front-end parsing and reformatting the
data, when what you want to know is what actually came across the
wire?

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gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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