[ILUG] Reading TCP data packet contents

[Conall O'Brien]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 12:21:13PM GMT, Ronan O Ciosoig 
<ronanoc at mac.com> incoherently babbled:

[wandering slightly off topic...]

> I am trying to investigate the TCP transactions of a certain app on 
> Mac OS X. I know you can use tcpdump to dump the packets, and use 
> Ethereal or tcpshow to read the data, but neither of these are 
> available on OS X. Any suggestions on how I sould go about it or 
> apps I should use.

Em, what version of OS X are you using? Panther and Tiger both have
tcpdump as standard, and is found in /usr/sbin/
 

You'll have to install ethereal or tethereal (if you want the non GUI
version) using Fink or Darwinports though...

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