ipfw question

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 03/28/15 16:51, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> On 03/28/15 14:40, Michael Powell wrote:
>> William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>>>> "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war
>>>>> ever devised by man."
>>>>>                              -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
>> And, oddly enough after many, many years mine still works fine.
>>
>>>> Wireshark is pretty but requires X11. It also does a better job of 
>>>> making
>>>> the output understandable.
>>>>
>>>> tcpdump should be included in the base system and is text so works
>>>> without a GUI. You used to be able to take a tcpdump output file 
>>>> and feed
>>>> it to Wireshark for viewing.
>> [snip]
>>> Very well, I have wireshark already installed (this is a desktop box),
>>> I'll poke around & see what I find. Thanks :-).
>>>
>> tcpdump can save output in a file which Wireshark can import and 
>> read. Both
>> have filtering capabilities, so you can use tcpdump to capture 
>> everything
>> and use Wireshark to winnow out of the spew what you find 
>> interesting. Or,
>> if you already know pretty much which traffic you want to see it's often
>> easier and quicker (come time to view in Wireshark) to do some basic
>> filtering with tcpdump's myriad command line switches first. I do 
>> this on
>> interfaces of remote machines which are servers and have no X, 
>> copying the
>> file to the desktop with Wireshark. This can improve signal-to-noise 
>> ratio.
>> The same information is present, but Wireshark is just better 
>> presentation-
>> wise and can perform some analysis that tcpdump can not.
>>
>> -Mike
>>
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>
>
> P.S.: After a few min. of running tcpdump, I notice traffic to & from 
> 'pperikov.static.corbina.ru.9001', nobody I know or recognize :-/ .... 
> Does this ring a bell w/ anyone ?
>
>

OK, relax Willie, it's something TOR-related (which I am running) .... 
Sorry for the noise :-/ ....

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	William A. Mahaffey III

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	"The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war
	 ever devised by man."
                            -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.