On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 09:35:33AM -0400, Ray Stell wrote: > Knowing how Michael traced the connection with ssldump would be > VERY helpful. The simple way is to run ssldump in one shell while running psql in another: ssldump -q port 5482 # my 8.2.3 db listens on port 5482 If I want to do more analysis I usually save the connection with tcpdump first: tcpdump -s0 -w dumpfile port 5482 The -s0 option is important: it tells tcpdump to capture the entire packet. When I'm done with psql I stop tcpdump and run ssldump over the dumpfile: ssldump -r dumpfile -q -- Michael Fuhr