TCPDUMP Monitoring Tool

[ngandhi]

Does someone know of a script or tool that can be used to monitor tcpdump traces?

[RobinVossen]

Does Wireshark work for you?

[ngandhi]

Thank You Robin for your reply, but Wireshark does not work. Although Wireshark is similar to TCPDump, I want something that will dynamically scan and monitor a trace given by TCPDump.... so basically I want something like Wireshark but that uses TCPDump as input.....

[RobinVossen]

What is it you exactly want to monitor / trace for?

[ngandhi]

I want to monitor it for the host address and port numbers

[RobinVossen]

My advice is to extract data while piping in Grep. =)
or use tshark..
Also, writing a faily easy perl script for this based on libcap might solve your problem

[ngandhi]

Thanks a lot for your time...... have a good day....