Re: [gentoo-user] Sniffing / analysis of application / wifi packets on my LAN

2010-10-07 Thread Adam Carter
> > > As far as CLI tools go, sorry, I'm not sure what's available. Never had > > a need to look into those. > tcpdump is the most common CLI tool. Handy if you want to capture to a file on a unix based firewall or F5 etc so you can then view it in Wireshark on your workstation. > So Wireshark

Re: [gentoo-user] Sniffing / analysis of application / wifi packets on my LAN

2010-10-07 Thread Stroller
On 7 Oct 2010, at 12:28, Jake Moe wrote: > ... > As far as I'm aware, Wireshark is the standard for packet capture and > analysis. ... > > As far as CLI tools go, sorry, I'm not sure what's available. Never had > a need to look into those. So Wireshark is a GUI tool? I thought I'd used it in C

Re: [gentoo-user] Sniffing / analysis of application / wifi packets on my LAN

2010-10-07 Thread Mick
On 7 October 2010 10:37, Stroller wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm interested in the activity of an application which is running on my LAN, > and was wondering if anyone could offer some quick pointers on the best tools > for this these days. I've played with this some years ago, but only very > supe

Re: [gentoo-user] Sniffing / analysis of application / wifi packets on my LAN

2010-10-07 Thread William Kenworthy
Wireshark - always use the latest ~x86. Can capture and save with a lot of options. to just do a quick capture, try "tcpdump -i eth- -w file.pcap" writes a pcap format file (can be read by wireshark etc) "tcpdump -r file.pcap" to see whats in it "tcpdump -A - -r file.pcap" to extract text like h

Re: [gentoo-user] Sniffing / analysis of application / wifi packets on my LAN

2010-10-07 Thread Jake Moe
On 10/07/10 19:37, Stroller wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm interested in the activity of an application which is running on my LAN, > and was wondering if anyone could offer some quick pointers on the best tools > for this these days. I've played with this some years ago, but only very > superficia

[gentoo-user] Sniffing / analysis of application / wifi packets on my LAN

2010-10-07 Thread Stroller
Hi there, I'm interested in the activity of an application which is running on my LAN, and was wondering if anyone could offer some quick pointers on the best tools for this these days. I've played with this some years ago, but only very superficially - I think I used wireshark back then. Idea