From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kjell Jarl Subject: Re: AX25 in libpcap, tcpdump & ethereal Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 16:17:38 +0100 Message-ID: <43760792.6060304@algonet.se> References: <4373BBBD.10505@rns-stearn.demon.co.uk> <20051111115014.GB3137@linux-mips.org> <1131773763.2520.18.camel@CO> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1131773763.2520.18.camel@CO> Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org 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 > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > >