[Tutor] How to monitor streaming data from the internet via modem?

[andrew clarke]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 12:57:53PM +0000, Ben Vinger wrote:

> On 3/8/06, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at freenet.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Ethereal is one well known and powerful one, but there are others
> > which may be simpler to use.
> 
> Yes, with Ethereal comes a command-line version called tethereal, which I've
> used within Python on both Windows and Linux.  It worked nicely for trafic
> analysis, but if you're interested only in the clear text passing through
> the line, I'd think of using netcat.

tcpflow may also be worth a look.

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

Regards
Andrew