[lug] OT: capturing network data on Solaris

[Walter Pienciak]

On Thu, 2 Nov 2000 matthew.w.mcillece at lmco.com wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a tool for Solaris (and preferably from Sun) to
> capture the data in a TCP packet?  We're troubleshooting a communication
> problem between a Solaris box and a single board computer.  Our system
> admin ran snoop with the verbose option for us, but all it showed us were
> the packet headers and not the data itself.  I found ethereal, but it is
> apparently from a third party and would prefer to stick with something from
> Sun.  I searched www.sun.com and docs.sun.com for libpcap, netcat, and
> ethereal and nothing came up.

I'd be amazed if Sun supported netcat or ethereal.

Anyway, maybe your company has some kind of "issues" using nonvendor
software, but I've been following/using ethereal for a while now.  It
has a nice interface, and it's a snap to set up filters so you can watch
traffic between two specific IPs.

Even though it has a GUI, I like it -- a lot.  Just put it on a laptop,
or something noncritical, if that'll assuage the Fear.

This is a program that's been getting better and better and better.

Walter