The sniff
utility is a network management tool that displays the packets that a specific network interface card (NIC) is hearing.
Invoke sniff
from the command line in the <CC_install_directory
>/program
directory using the following syntax:
sniff
Below is sample output from the sniff
utility:
Mail Test Environment Variables:
BTMailHost, BTSender, BTRecipients, BTSubject, BTText Packet Test Environment Variables: BTPort, BTMcastTTL, BTUcastCount, BTBcastCount, BTMcastCount BTSendInterval, BTDoLocalBind, BTUcastAddress, BTBcastAddress BTMcastAddress, BTLocalAddress, BTSendSize, BTRecvSize BTConsole, BTLogFile, BTSystem Press keys at run-time: d - dump sniff configuration information H - display this and more help h - display this help l - run load balance test thread m - run mail test thread p - toggle packet dump display q, <ESC>, <ENTER> - quit all active threads and exit r - run UDP listener thread s - run packet test thread x - execute system command Use the "r" command within sniff to listen to intra-cluster packets: Listen Thread thread running on 'any' interface... [ SrvHello @ Tue Jun 30 17:01:57 1998] 192.168.0.213 boston1.brighttiger.com (192.168.0.118 ) (255.255.255.0 ) sales_automation Mcast V1.2 Available 2/90 [[ SrvHello @ Tue Jun 30 17:01:57 1998] 192.168.0.213 somewhere.brighttiger.com (192.168.0.213 ) (255.255.255.0 )