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- From: justin@hp750.ccs.uky.edu (Justin Sullivan)
- Subject: Re: TCPdump-like utility for HP
- Keywords: tcpdump netmonitor
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 20:45:12 GMT
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- atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson) writes:
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- > Just to second the comment, this really would be a very nice tool to
- >have on my HP. My interim solution is to use a colleague's Sun (which
- >HAS tcpdump ALREADY) in an xterm opened onto my HP 730.
-
- > The tcpdump(8) tool is not used quite so much as ping(8) or
- >traceroute(8), but it IS widely used by administrators of TCP/IP
- >networks. I think of it as a tool that doesn't compete with a full
- >blown network analyser but rather as one to narrow down the location
- >of my problem (os, application, networking code, or the network
- >itself) to help figure out whether to pull out a network analyser. In
- >a previous life when my life was more operationally oriented, I
- >depended on it. Now it would be very helpful in my research.
-
- > If someone with access to the kernel sources were to port tcpdump(8)
- >to HPUX/HP-BLS on the 7xx series platforms and anonymously donate it
- >to the InterWorks archive, a lot of us users would be most grateful.
- >Based on my understanding that the HP kernel uses networking code
- >mostly derived from BSD 4.3+tahoe/reno, porting tcpdump(8) should not
- >be a very hard problem (say 3 man-days) for someone with access to the
- >kernel. I believe the canonical source archive for tcpdump(8) is
- >ftp.ee.lbl.gov (I could be wrong). It is possible that someone at LBL
- >has ported it already to 4.4 BSD running on an HP workstation.
-
- Here here! My thoughts exactly. :)
- It turns out that the solution is sitting on my HP-UX distribution CD-ROM..
- nettl, HP's Network Tracing and Logging utility. It's in the LAN-MAN
- and NETTRACELOG distribution subsets (just run /etc/update to install them).
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