Monitoring UDP data

[JBlair]

I'm wanting to create a small program to help me inspect inbound UDP packets from a game in the hopes that I can put the data to use in a database or collection for future tools that provide info on that game.

I've searched around and pieced together a port sniffer that echoes to a tree list with the port and packet data, but I do not know how to get the actual text being sent from the packet. I've tried simply converting the inbound data to text and it just gives the letter "E" constantly.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

 

[dseaver]

Have you taken a look at wireshark? You can filter the packets and it also will also display the plain text for you

 

[dseaver]

Also, Wireshark is open source, so you could borrow the code you need to monitor UDP if you want to write your own tool.

 

[JBlair]

Checking it out, thanks for the path-finding