Re: remote capturing using tcpdump

[Ankith Agarwal <ankitha () cdac in>]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010, Richard Huddleston <huddleston.richard () gmail com>
said:

> Like many people here, i've used tcpdump (or libpcap) to write data acquisition gadgets that then report up to some 
> higher tier. 
>
> If you wanted to build one without doing all the messy libpcap and socket calls, you could chain tcpdump, a little 
> awk, and nc (netcat) together.  It wouldn't be incredibly robust but would fall together very quickly and would be a 
> little more what you seem to have in mind. 
>
> Sent from my iPhone - please excuse any typos. 

 Thank you for the solution. One more thing, for monitoring a remote
client is it better to transfer the header data to the server and
calculate the parameters or just transfer the parameters??  Is there any
tool which directly gives all the QoS parameters as its output so that i
can write it to the server??

Regards
Ankit



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