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+ <chapter id="ziffy"><title>ziffy</title>
+ <sect1 id="ziffy.introduction"><title>Introduction</title>
+ <para>
+ ziffy is a promiscuous Z39.50 APDU sniffer, like the popular tcpdump.
+ ziffy can capture and show all Z39.50 traffic on your LAN segment.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ ziffy is copyright Rocco Carbone and is covered by the GPL. ziffy
+ uses <ulink url="&url.libpcap;">libpcap</ulink> to capture the packages
+ and is part of YAZ 2.1.42 or later.
+ Source and documentation for the ziffy utility is part of the sub
+ directory <filename>ziffy</filename> in the YAZ source package.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The ziffy software is also a standalone piece of software and
+ can be obtained separately. The ziffy as part of YAZ, uses
+ YAZ for decoding Z39.50 packages. The standalone version can
+ use different decoders (SNACC and X/ASN.1)
+ </para>
+ </sect1>
+ <sect1 id="ziffy.using"><title>Using Ziffy</title>
+ <para>
+ ziffy must be executed with root priviledge.
+ </para>
+ <example>
+ <para>
+ In the command below ziffy is started and dumps all Z39.50 traffic
+ on ethernet device <literal>eth0</literal>
+ </para>
+ <screen>
+ # ziffy -i eth0
+ </screen>
+ </example>
+ <para>
+ For more information about ziffy refer to the man page ziffy(1) and
+ the material in sub directory <filename>ziffy</filename>.
+ </para>
+ </sect1>
+ </chapter>
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