Re: [tcpdump-workers] Failing to capture packets....

2007-01-23 Thread Stephen Donnelly
Most commercial NICs only deliver well formed Ethernet packets (valid size, correct FCS) to the operating system, and also generally strip out Ethernet control frames such as 'pause' indications. Because of this Libpcap would not have any data to deliver to the capturing application. You may have

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Failing to capture packets....

2007-01-23 Thread Paul Armor
Hi, after Guy's last email where he states: "Tcpdump supports capturing *all* network traffic;" I feel compelled to again ask if anyone can offer any suggestions on how I can achieve my goal of capturing the data I'm seeing on my ethernet segment... To what I wrote earlier I'd also add that th

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Capture/decode SSL

2007-01-23 Thread lemons_terry
Excellent information. Thanks, Guy! tl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Guy Harris Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 12:59 PM To: tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org Subject: Re: [tcpdump-workers] Capture/decode SSL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Capture/decode SSL

2007-01-23 Thread Guy Harris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to capture and decode SSL traffic. Does tcpdump support this? Tcpdump supports capturing *all* network traffic; if it captures and saves packets to a file, the packet contents are just a big bucket of bytes. Note that its default "snapshot length" is 68 byte