Re: [osol-discuss] how to use SUNWnetcat to capture network traffic?

2009-12-07 Thread roland
i need to capture traffic between two apps. so you want some network sniffer. not sure if ngrep is available for solaris. I started with snoop, but as i'm only interested by ascii messages (the apps use telnet to communicate), snoop don't do the job well. why not? it probably depends on the

[osol-discuss] how to use SUNWnetcat to capture network traffic?

2009-12-02 Thread solarg
hello all, On OS2009.06 b127, i need to capture traffic between two apps. I started with snoop, but as i'm only interested by ascii messages (the apps use telnet to communicate), snoop don't do the job well. Somebody suggests me to use netcat, something like: nc -l -p PORT -e PROGRAM and

Re: [osol-discuss] how to use SUNWnetcat to capture network traffic?

2009-12-02 Thread Tomas Bodzar
I think that this man pages (with some real examples) is enough http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ncapropos=0sektion=0manpath=OpenBSD+Currentarch=i386format=html -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

Re: [osol-discuss] how to use SUNWnetcat to capture network traffic?

2009-12-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
solarg wrote: My question is why does Sun deliver this kind of package? Because it's more useful than not delivering it. What about this package makes you think we shouldn't deliver it? And why with no man pages? he...@tara:~$ pkg contents SUNWnetcat PATH usr usr/bin usr/bin/nc Many