Re: dissect TCP/IP flow

From: Jamie Riden (jamie.riden@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Jul 21 2007 - 12:21:56 EDT


On 20/07/07, Joćo Henrique Ferreira de Freitas <joaohf@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Anybody have a good how to, tutorial or papers about dissect a TCP/IP
> flow?
>
> The background is: I have a client/server application and need
> decode/dissect the communication. The goal is make a tool to interact
> with
> the server application, send commands and request operations.

tcpflow is useful to start off with. It will unpack live capture or
tcpdump files into flows.

http://www.circlemud.org/~jelson/software/tcpflow/

(apt-get install tcpflow for ubuntu/debian users)

Or 'follow TCP stream' option under Wireshark can be helpful too.

cheers,
 Jamie

-- 
Jamie Riden / jamesr@europe.com / jamie@honeynet.org.uk
UK Honeynet Project: http://www.ukhoneynet.org/
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