Marco: tcpdump will work just fine for this purpose. You can also use wireshark if you want a GUI interface. On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 10:23 -0400, Marco wrote: > Hi all, > > I am new to this mailing list and hope it is the right place to place > my question. If not, I am thankful for suggestions where to place it > instead. > > I have to connect to a phy using a FPGA. So far, the FPGA only > implements the Data Link Layer. On top of that, the data is just > looped back to the sending computer. I use a package generator tool to > send data. > > Now I want to test if the implementation of the Data Link Layer > together with the loopback works correctly. Therefore I am searching a > tool to capture the traffic on the network card of the computer. I > want something to capture the outgoing and incoming traffic so that I > am able to compare these. > > I thought of tcpdump but I am not sure if it is able to capture > traffic on such a low layer. Can tcpdump do that? If not, what other > tools could you recommend? > > Thanks a lot in advance! > > -- > Best regards, > Marco > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
