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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: ethernet/etherd question
- Date: 3 Sep 1992 21:40:15 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- In article <1992Sep3.172614.21211@iitmax.iit.edu> feldner@iitmax.iit.edu (Patrick J. Feldner) writes:
- > Does anyone know how to read ALL ethernet packets from the
- > device or if it is possible to retrieve the information from
- > the "rpc.etherd" process running on the system.
-
- The way to do this for packets accessible to the local machine is with the
- NIT device; see nit(4).
-
- > The monitor would need to reference the
- > source address, destination address, protocol type, packet
- > size, etc.
-
- If you need to see individual packets, I don't think etherd will suffice.
- It only provides statistics, not details. See /usr/include/rpcsvc/ether.x
- for the description of the etherd protocol.
-
- >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
- >Patrick J. Feldner INET: feldner@iitmax.iit.edu
- >Senoir DEC Networks/Systems Analyst BITNET: SYSPAT@IITVAX
- >Chicago Title & Trust Ma Bell: (312) 630-3396
-
- "Senoir"?
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- Barry Margolin
- System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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