IP packet header visualization software
Bakul Shah
bakul at bitblocks.com
Wed Nov 1 22:45:42 UTC 2017
On Thu, 02 Nov 2017 00:46:25 +0300 DES <3des at inx.su> wrote:
DES writes:
> Hello FreeBSD-Net,
>
> does anybody remember, around year 2004, there was a software
> application available (either as port, or package). Unfortunately I do
> not recall the application name and I'm not able to find it again,
> although I've reviewed the Ports collection from year 2005 which I have
> on 3 DVDs. I do not remember if the application captured data from the
> network interface by itself, or used tcpdump output, that actually
> doesn't matter. What matters is that this app draw a picture of the
> selected IP packet's header, similar to the one in RFC791 at page 11,
> chapter "3.1. Internet Header Format". The picture drawn was
> minimalistic and in colors (green, yellow), and it showed the field
> values from the actual capture. I've ran it under TWM, and it looked
> close to that one, but showing captured values instead of (or along
> with) field names -
>
> Appreciate if anybody remembers that application by a chance and could
> tell its name.
ethereal? It later became wireshark.
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