Description of TRF2TCPD
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From Rob van der Heij, IBM Netherlands
Since z/VM 4.4 the VM TCP/IP stack can produce a packet trace that is recorded in TRF files. The TRF2TCPD utility reads the TRF files and converts the contents to the format used by Linux tcpdump command. The tcpdump format (actually the libpcap format) is used by most Linux tools that show or analyse recorded packet traces (like tcpdump, tcptrace). Because the TRF2TCPD utility reads the TRF files, there is no need to run TRACERED and buffer the output of that somewhere on disk.
You need at least
CMS Pipelines 1.0111 sublevel B (May 2004) to run this
program. The latest version of the CMS Pipelines Runtime Library can be
downloaded from the CMS Pipelines Homepage at
http://vm.marist.edu/~pipeline
Only the userid running this conversion program needs to have the new
level of CMS Pipelines available. You do not have to install that level
for all other users if you do not want to do so. In that case, it would
be sufficient to download the PIPELINE MODULE from the CMS Pipelines
Homepage and store it as NXPIPE MODULE on an accessed disk. Using the
PICKPIPE utility (also from the CMS Pipelines Homepage) you can select
the new level with
To convert one or more TRF files into tcpdump format, use the following:
Usage: TRF2TCPD spids fn ft fm
Where:
- spids
- list of TRF spool file id's, separated by comma
- fn ft fm
- output file to be written
The output file must then be transferred in binary (e.g. via FTP) to a Linux system where the tcpdump command could be used to display a formatted trace: