Integrate ngrep into Solaris [PSARC/2008/562 FastTrack timeout 09/11/2008]

Martina Tomisova Martina.Tomisova at sun.com
Thu Sep 4 07:52:07 PDT 2008


> For those who haven't used ngrep (and for the larger picture), what's
> the difference between this utility and tshark or snoop?  What does it
> do that those things don't do, or when might you choose to use one
> over the other?
> 
> A quick read through the documentation makes it look mostly equivalent
> to tshark and snoop ...

You can see more at this page: http://ngrep.sourceforge.net/usage.html

The main advantage of ngrep is that you can easily define (using regular 
expressions) which packets do you want to catch.

Martina



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