tool to convert packet level pcap format to argus flow level data?

Peter Van Epp vanepp at sfu.ca
Thu Jul 27 16:14:03 EDT 2006


On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 03:52:00PM -0400, George Nychis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone has created any tools to convert packet level
> traces such as pcap format tcpdump data to argus flow level data?
> 
> I'd greatly appreciate any help or suggestions.
> 
> Thanks!
> George

	Yep :-)   argus -r file.tcp -w file.argus  (for 2.0.6 substituting the
appropriate argus_bpf, argus_linux etc.). The argus daemon is perfectly happy
with tcpdump file input. As I recall on 2.0.6 there is a bug so that stdin
doesn't work but there is a patch around to fix it as well. 

Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support 
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada



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