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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: "Ether_listen" for Risc Ultrix?
Message-ID: <22317@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 10 Jun 91 22:58:45 GMT
References: <1991Jun10.152247.12349@cm.cf.ac.uk>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Jun10.152247.12349@cm.cf.ac.uk> cookc@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Chris Cook) writes:
> We've just got hold of the Ether_listen utility for VMS.  Has anyone got 
> something similar to monitor the ethernet from a Risc Ultrix 5830, 5500 or
> even 5100 or a DECStation?

As of release 4.2, Ultrix includes a version of tcpdump in the unsupported
subsets.  This is probably similar to what your Ether_listen does.  It is
possible to run tcpdump on earlier 4.x versions, but there are compromises
involved.  Note that Sun workstations also include a similar program called
etherfind and there is a version of tcpdump that work there also.  If is
often advantageous to have a "third party" doing the monitoring, not one of
the host systems.

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