[ILUG] Simple Socket sniffer?

[Paul Jakma]

On Thu, 27 May 2004, Dermot Daly wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm looking for a utility for Linux that will:
> 1. Listen on a given port
> 2. Forward all data received on this port to another given host/port
> 3. ..and show the data it is passing on.

If your distro has xinetd, man xinetd.conf and look for redirect. 
Somethng like:

service whatever
{
	disable = no
	socket_type             = stream
	protocol                = tcp
	wait = yes
	redirect = host <port>
}

should do the trick.

regards,
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