Guy Harris said:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:34:53PM +1100, Darren Reed wrote:
> > What you're looking for yere is:
> > 
> > tcpdump -w - | gzip -c > foo.tcpdump.gz
> 
> ...although if you ^C out of the tcpdump run, it also ^C's out of the
> gzip run, and, at least the one time I tried that, the resulting gzipped
> file was corrupt.

True, but in my opinion, I'd rather not see the pcap interface bloated
to support libz. Adding another function means applications have to
support it too. 

-- 
Matt Bing
NFR Security
Rapid Response Team
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