# reading live traffic

**URL:** <https://community.zeek.org/t/reading-live-traffic/484>\
**Category:** Zeek\
**Created:** [April 1, 2004, 11:55am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/reading-live-traffic/484 "2004-04-01T11:55:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Bryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/db5fbb/32.png) [@Bryan](https://community.zeek.org/u/Bryan)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 11:55am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/reading-live-traffic/484/1 "2004-04-01T11:55:01Z")

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Hello,

I can get bro to read dump captures without any problems...

> bro -r \<capture.file\> mt ...

but I'm not quite sure on the live traffic

Do I type "\>bro -i eth0" ?

Thanks,  
Bryan  
Florida Tech

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**Author:** ![Bryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/db5fbb/32.png) [@Bryan](https://community.zeek.org/u/Bryan)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 3:34pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/reading-live-traffic/484/2 "2004-04-01T15:34:32Z")

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Thanks!

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/zeek/original/1X/f09d732bc2cc7c7cc7e35db67cf4e1d5233ce7a7.png) [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 3:36pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/reading-live-traffic/484/3 "2022-05-06T15:36:58Z")

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