Talk:Tcpdump

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Is there any way to put the title in lower case for unix commands ? Ericd 00:43 Apr 22, 2003 (UTC)

No. This issue has been discussed several times before, e.g. regarding iMac. Complain to a programmer. -- Tim Starling 00:58 Apr 22, 2003 (UTC)

I think that was a decision based largely on practicality--otherwise, dog and Dog would lead to different articles, which would clutter the database considerably with redirects. Koyaanis Qatsi


 * It's a simple problem to fix, for a competent programmer. You just have a "make this title lower case" flag that can be set, associated with the article, similar to the page protection flag. The UI could just be a checkbox on the edit page. -- Tim Starling 01:27 Apr 22, 2003 (UTC)


 * I'll take your word on it. Koyaanis Qatsi, not a software programmer


 * I think article requiring lowercase will be a minority (as of today I don't see any other case than unix commands or iMac). While my programming skills are limited a tag in the tittle is the way to go IMO. Of course we will have to move article by hand thereafter. Ericd 10:42, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

No, the WinPcap page should not be merged with this page. WinPcap is a library for packet capture (a port of libpcap to Windows); tcpdump is a packet capture program that uses libpcap (the WinDump port of tcpdump uses WinPcap). Perhaps the WinPcap page should be merged with the page for libpcap - and the page for pcap.

Unless somebody explains why they believe the WinPcap page should be merged with tcpdump rather than, say, libpcap, I'll assume they were confused, and will change the suggestion to say it should perhaps be merged with libpcap. Guy Harris 21:25, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Notes about the 2002 tcpdump Trojan
I didn't put this directly on the page as I wasn't sure about the relevance, or the proper formatting/style. Feel free to fix it up, or just copy it onto the page (adding a note in the edit summary that it came from here, of course.) 75.214.135.127 (really, User:JesseW/not logged in) 04:04, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

In Novemeber 2002, an intruder broke into the machine that held the official sources for tcpdump, and inserted a trojan horse version of the code. The trojan would, when compiled, open a port and listen for further commands. It was discovered within a day of its release, by some alert users of the Gentoo Portage system. Unfortunetly, a number of mirror sites had already copied the trojaned versions. The compromised machine was taken offline for about two weeeks.