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LOG2PCAP(1)
NAME
  log2pcap - Extract network traces from Samba log files

SYNOPSIS
  log2pcap [-h] [-q] [logfile] [pcap_file]

DESCRIPTION
  This tool is part of the Samba(7) suite.

  log2pcap reads in a samba log file and generates a pcap file	(readable  by
  most	sniffers,  such	 as ethereal or tcpdump) based on the packet dumps in
  the log file.

  The log file must  have  a  log  level  of  at  least	 5  to	get  the  SMB
  header/parameters  right,  10 to get the first 512 data bytes of the packet
  and 50 to get the whole packet.

OPTIONS
  -h   If this parameter is specified the output file will be a hex dump,  in
       a format that is readable by the text2pcap utility.

  -q   Be quiet. No warning messages about missing or incomplete data will be
       given.

  logfile
       Samba log file. log2pcap will try to read the log from  stdin  if  the
       log file is not specified.

  pcap_file
       Name of the output file to write the pcap (or  hexdump)	data  to.  If
       this argument is not specified, output data will be written to stdout.

  -h|--help
       Print a summary of command line options.

EXAMPLES
  Extract all network traffic from all samba log files:

			  $ log2pcap < /var/log/* > trace.pcap
	  .fi

  Convert to pcap using text2pcap:

	  $ log2pcap -h samba.log | text2pcap -T 139,139 - trace.pcap
	  .fi

VERSION
  This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba suite.

BUGS
  Only SMB data is extracted from the samba logs, no LDAP, NetBIOS lookup  or
  other data.

  The generated TCP and IP headers don't contain a valid checksum.

SEE ALSO
  text2pcap(1), ethereal(1)

AUTHOR
  The original Samba software and related utilities were  created  by  Andrew
  Tridgell.  Samba  is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open Source pro-
  ject similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed.

  This manpage was written by Jelmer Vernooij.

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