Bug#155032: ITP: tcpreen -- Simple TCP re-engineering tool
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 12:06:57AM +0200, Oliver Kurth wrote:
> TCPreen is a small tool for monitoring a TCP connection.
> It works like a bridge between the server and the client in a TCP
> connection, displays any data that is sent either way, and optionnaly
> logs everything to a file.
>
> It is mainly useful if you want to understand what informations a
> client and a server exchanges during a TCP session. It was originally
> meant to help reverse engineering proprietary TCP-based protocols or
> protocol extensions.
What advantage does it have over a simple packet capture utility
like tcpdump or Ethereal?
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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