[vox-tech] packet sniffer help

[Bill Broadley]

Did you by chance recently reinstall a new redhat which enables a firewall
by default?

If you wish to remove all firewall rules try:
/sbin/ipchains --flush

Than again maybe id's just not running their server anymore.

bOn Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 05:00:42PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> amazingly, i've never used a packet sniffer before.
> 
> for the past few days (weeks?  i've really been too busy to play much
> recently) i haven't been able to get a list of quake 3 servers from the
> internet.  quake 3 keeps reporting "no response from master server".
> using tcpdump, i've determed that "master server" is
> master.quake3arena.com.  i can't ping this server, but that's because
> idsoftware has disabled all icmp to their domain (they had trouble with
> DoS attacks).
> 
> i'd like to take a look at what my client is sending the master server.
> 
> can someone suggest a packet sniffer?  i'm looking more for ease of use
> than exotic functionality.   i'd appreciate input from anyone who has an
> opinion on a good sniffer.  (note: i don't use/know the advanced net
> logging stuff from 2.4 kernels.  until summer rolls around, i don't want
> to learn it either).
> 
> btw, any other quake3 users having trouble contacting id software's
> master quake3 server?
> 
> pete
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Bill Broadley
Mathematics/Institute of Theoretical Dynamics
UC Davis