Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] AIM decode?

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From: David Howland <metalliqaz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:27:39 -0500
Patrick Rutkowski wrote:
Nope, I've had no luck as of yet, check out my terminal output.

root@gentoo tcpdump # tcpdump --version
tcpdump version 3.8.3
libpcap version 0.8.3
Usage: tcpdump [-aAdDeflLnNOpqRStuUvxX] [-c count] [ -C file_size ]
                [ -E algo:secret ] [ -F file ] [ -i interface ] [ -r file ]
                [ -s snaplen ] [ -T type ] [ -w file ] [ -y datalinktype ]
                [ expression ]
root@gentoo tcpdump # tcpdump -w -s 65535 feb17
tcpdump: syntax error
root@gentoo tcpdump #


You have to put the "feb17" after the "-w", like this:

# tcpdump -s 65535 -w feb17

The adviced worked for me.  I'm using NetBSD 2.0.

-d