Re: AX25 in libpcap, tcpdump & ethereal

[Kjell Jarl <K-Jarl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Agree, listen ist my standard tool for packet also.
73
Kjell, sm7gvf



Wilson G. Hein wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 03:50, Ralf Baechle DL5RB wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 09:29:33PM +0000, Richard Stearn wrote:
> >
> >
> > > For the foolhardy, desperate or those who just like to live dangerously.
> > >
> > > To play with this you will need to be comfortable with using tar, patch
> > > & make at the very least and using Linux. The system I am using is a
> > > Slackware 8.1 install (kernel 2.4.31)
> > >
> > > Attached is a patch that adds AX.25 to:
> > > 	libpcap  - recognition and capture
> > > 	tcpdump  - decoding AX.25, to a limited extent
> > > 		 - decoding an ARP payload
> > > 		 - decoding a TCP/IP payload
> > > 	ethereal - dissection of AX.25
> > > 		 - dissection of an TCP/IP payload
> > >
> > > All others are treated as having no L3 protocol and printed in hex
> > > and ascii.
> >
> > This is excellent news and I hope it means we can soon retire listen(8)
> > in favor of the standard tools tcpdump and ethereal!
> >
> >  Ralf
> > -
>
>
> I agree that it's good news as far ass the added abilities to tcpdump
> and ethereal, but I wholeheartedly disagree with retiring listen. For me
> and maybe others, with respect to packet radio, listen is a standard
> tool. Even with added abilities to the other tools, only listen provides
> me with just what I want to see when monitoring my packet systems on air
> activities. Nothing more, nothing less...
>
> Willie, WJ3G
>
>
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