BSD Ports

net/tcpflow 1.6.1p2 OpenBSD

tool for capturing data from TCP connections

System
OpenBSD
Repository
OpenBSD ports
Maintainer
Kirill A. Korinsky <[email protected]>
Categories
net

Description

tcpflow is a program that captures data transmitted as part of TCP connections (flows), and stores it in a way that is convenient for protocol analysis or debugging. A program like 'tcpdump' only shows a summary of packets seen on the wire, but usually doesn't store the data that's actually being transmitted. In contrast, tcpflow reconstructs the actual data streams and stores each flow in a separate file for later analysis.

tcpflow understands sequence numbers and will correctly reconstruct data streams regardless of retransmissions or out-of-order delivery. However, it currently does not understand IP fragments; flows containing IP fragments will not be recorded properly.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
OpenBSDnet/tcpflow1.6.1p2
FreeBSDnet/tcpflow1.6.1_1
NetBSDnet/tcpflow1.6.1nb31

Install

Binary package:

pkg_add tcpflow

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/net/tcpflow && make install

Dependencies

Build dependencies 5
Run dependencies 1

No port depends on this one.