Hello,

(seems a developper question, apologies if it's more a user (moron)
question)

I'm using Netkit (www.netkit.org): it's a network simulator using UML
and I want to show packets exchanged between the UML machines. I believe
the best way is to

- use wireshark with the flag "-" to capture packets in the standard input.
- use netcat to read the data socket of uml_switch and print to the
standard output

But uml_switch uses a ctl socket to open new port. I need a way to
manually open a port by uml_switch to connect netcat. I don't think
uml_switch offer command-line instruction for this, so is the best way
to write a short program writing on the ctl socket of uml_switch ? If
yes, what data to send to uml_switch ?

Cheers,

Julien.


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