.TH TRACEDUMP "1" "November 2005" "tracedump (libtrace)" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
tracedump \- output packets in human readable format
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B tracedump
[ \fB-f\fR exp | \fB--filter=\fRexp ]
[ \fB-c\fR num | \fB--count=\fRnum ]
inputuri ...

.SH DESCRPTION
tracedump verbosely outputs packets in a human readable form, suitable for
diagnosing packets.

tracedump uses the libpacketdump library.  There is an examlpe tracedump 
program in the examples directory that shows how to use libpacketdump.

.TP
.PD 0
.BI \-f " bpf-filter"
.TP
.PD
.BI \-\^\-filter " bpf-filter"
Output only packets that match the \fIbpf-filter\fR expression.  See 
tcpdump(1) for the syntax of the bpf-filter expression.

.TP
.PD 0
.BI \-c " num"
.TP
.PD
.BI \-\^\-count " num"
stop after displaying \fInum\fR packets.


.SH SEE ALSO
libtrace(3), tracemerge(1), tracesplit(1), tracefilter(1), tracestats(1),
tracesummary(1)

.SH AUTHORS
Perry Lorier <perry@cs.waikato.ac.nz>, Daniel Lawson <dlawson@cs.waikato.ac.nz>