Port watching

["Ryan Maclear" <@inkosi.src.wits.ac.za>]

Hi,

I have a Java application that accesses a port on a remote machine using TCP/IP. My local machine sometimes receives or interprets the TCP package from the remote machine incorrectly. I would like to know how to monitor the packages through the port on the local machine so that I can determine whether I am actually receiving the package, or whether my application has stopped reading the port correctly.

When I do a netstat -a, the state of the connection is ESTABLISHED, so the connection has not gone down. I have the same application running on an NT box, as well as an OS/2 box and there  doesn't seem to be a problem on those machines.

The Linux box has Redhat 6.0 installed, kaffe version kaffe-1.0.b4-2 and the java info is
Engine: Just-in-time  Version: 1.0b4 Java Version: 1.1

Thanks,
Ryan