Please excuse me if this is not the right place to ask the question.
Please could anon or anyone else advise how I can sniff
1. the torrent announce packets sent to the trackers
2. the trackers' response?
I have downloaded SmartSniff but could not figure out how to capture this. Many thanks!
Try reading SmartSniff's manual, then use include:remote:tcp:XXXX as a filter, where XXXX is the tracker's port number. Remember sniffing won't work on SSL trackers (well, it will, but you'll see encrypted garbage).
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