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Re: tcpdump expressions?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Callahan)
Fri Jun 16 17:22:22 1995

Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 21:07:47 +0100 (BST)
From: Michael Callahan <callahan@maths.ox.ac.uk>
To: Kayvan Sylvan <kayvan@Sylvan.COM>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0sMh1P-000234C@satyr.sylvan.com>

On Fri, 16 Jun 1995, Kayvan Sylvan wrote:
> >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Callahan <callahan@maths.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> >> Does anyone have tcpdump working with expressions?
> 
> Michael> "tcpdump 'host foobar'" works for me.
> 
> What version? I'm using tcpdump version 3.0 from sunsite, with the PPP
> patch (patch02) and patch03 applied.

Ah...  actually, maybe this is the problem.  I'm using the file 
tcpdump-3.0-patched-src.tgz picked up from sunsite.  _However_, I'm using 
it on an Ethernet link, because I don't have any PPP connection.

> Neither "tcpdump 'host foobar'" nor "tcpdump host foobar" work. :-(
> 
> P.S. Is there a way to get name resolution to look in /etc/hosts first
> before going to the name server?

I see you already figured this one out.

Michael

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