debian man page for tcpbug

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NAME
       tcpbug - TCP/IP connection bugging device

SYNOPSIS
       tcpbug [-cx] [-btT] local-port remote-host remote-port

DESCRIPTION
       tcpbug forwards a TCP/IP connection to port local-port on the local machine to the port remote-port on remote-host while spying on the con-
       nection and writing all data passing through to standard output.  All data coming from the client is printed with a greater than  sign  (>)
       first  on  each	line,  and  all data coming from the server is printed with a less than sign (<) first on each line.  Any byte offsets and
       time-stamps are printed before the greater than or less than sign, and are separated from each other by a colon (:).

OPTIONS
       -b     Print the offset of the first byte in the stream for each line.

       -c     Display bytes as individual characters.  Printable characters are displayed directly, some control characters appear  as	C-language
	      escapes (
, 
, 	 et.c), while others appear as 3-digit octal numbers.	This should be similar to the -c switch of od(1).

       -t     Print  the  time	at  which the data was received for each line.	The time is the number of seconds and microseconds, separated by a
	      decimal point (.), since 00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970, as reported by gettimeofday().

       -T     Print the time at which the data was received for each line.  The time is the number of seconds and  microseconds,  separated  by  a
	      decimal point (.), since the connections were established.

       -x     Display each byte as a two digit hexadecimal number.

SEE ALSO
       tcpconnect(1), tcplisten(1), od(1).

BUGS
       The names of the options are not yet finalized, and may change at a future release.

								   1997 April 13							 TCPBUG(1)