On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Jeffrey Kroll wrote:
> I was asked by my manager today to find a way to sniff AIM / YAHOO / ICQ
> client msg's leaving and coming into our network. Does anyone know of a
> free software solution that would do this on a Debian distro or a
> tarball'd item. I would be implementing this on a hub (so that all
> traffic is shown to the sniffing server) and that the application would
> run on a dedicated machine.
Maybe tcpdump, and tell it to show packets headed for or coming from
login.oscar.aol.com:5190, messenger.hotmail.com:1863, or
scs.msg.yahoo.com:5050. Course decoding the sender/recipient is up to you.
Maybe it'll be nice and be in plain text? "od" is probably your friend at
this point.
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