I'm not very familiar with Solaris, so maybe there are tools that I don't know about. I need to debug the communication between two components on the same machine, talking to each other using a normal TCP socket.
Now there seem to be two tools available, one known from linux called tcpdump
, the other one being a solaris utility called snoop
. Unfortunately, at the client's site, there are a lot of restrictions and whatnot, so using these tools is not allowed / possible.
So, what I figured is that I could change the listening port of the server process to something else and have a tool like netcat
act as a proxy on the actual port while forwarding the traffic to the "real" server process, so I can dump the communication between those components.
Is there a tool that does this - preferably outputting a known format like tcpdump's? Or how else would you go about this?