Re: reading your email via tcpdump

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Tue, 19 Mar 2002 15:19:55 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Andreas Dilger wrote:

> On Mar 19, 2002 10:11 -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> > That's not the problem part of the tcpdump output. The problem is that part
> > of an email previously read on the linux box (with no samba runing. (also,
> > no smbfs MikeG?)) showed up in the tcpdump output...
>

The data sent/received on the network is precious. You will not have
any 'extra' data on its end except for possibly a single byte if the
data didn't have an even length. Note that these things are checksummed
and also CRCed in the hardware.

If you got part of somebody's email, I think you should look at
the `tcpdump` source. It may be the culprit...

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).

Windows-2000/Professional isn't.

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