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Re: How to Capture All Packet Traffic

From owl <owl@rooftop.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: How to Capture All Packet Traffic
Date 2017-04-25 18:23 +0000
Organization O.W.L.
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F. Russell <fr@random.info> wrote:
> All of my GNU/Linux software is compiled from source
> but there are a few programs, such as Master PDF Editor,
> that are binary distributions from a web site.
> 
> What is the best and simplest way of monitoring these
> few binary programs during execution to see if they
> are "phoning home" by sending packets to a server somewhere?
> 
> I would guess that tcpdump will do the job but if anyone
> has a better idea then post it here.

wireshark if you want a gui.

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How to Capture All Packet Traffic "F. Russell" <fr@random.info> - 2017-04-25 18:11 +0000
  Re: How to Capture All Packet Traffic owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-25 18:23 +0000
    Re: How to Capture All Packet Traffic "F. Russell" <fr@random.info> - 2017-04-25 18:29 +0000
      Re: How to Capture All Packet Traffic owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-25 18:40 +0000
    Re: How to Capture All Packet Traffic Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2017-04-26 13:25 +0100
  Re: How to Capture All Packet Traffic DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-26 10:49 -0400
    Re: How to Capture All Packet Traffic fr314159@gmail.com - 2017-04-26 09:05 -0700
      Re: How to Capture All Packet Traffic DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-26 12:39 -0400
    Re: How to Capture All Packet Traffic fr314159@gmail.com - 2017-04-26 09:19 -0700

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