Re: Suggest net trafic analyser pls!
"Alex V. Toropov" wrote:
> Hi all
> I having problem with qmail mail server.
> I hold some incoming smtp connection for a long time without any messages
> received from them :-(
> I'd like to analyse this situation.
> For this I need some kind of sniffer.
> Can anyone suggest me a kind of such app which is able to sniff from ppp
> interface ?
>
> I've tried "sniffit" from slink. The problem is: it seams not able to
> analyse ppp trafic
>
> On my debian box I have 3 ethernet card and one modem acting as default
> internet connection
> When I try
>
> sniffit -i -F eth2
>
> I see active sesions and etc.
> But if change eth2 to ppp1 (I find this using ifconfig)
> I don't see anything. But I'm sure that ppp1 interface is active and I have
> real traffic on it.
>
I really like ethereal. Graphical, nice breakdown of packets and datagrams and you
can follow packet streams.
Are you sure it's not ppp0? do you have 2 ppp connections?
dyer
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