tcpdump command and options

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tcpdump - dump traffic on a network. Tcpdump prints out a description of the contents of packets on a network interface that match the boolean expression.

Type the following command:

$tcpdump

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OPTIONS

-i interface

--interface=interface Listen on interface. If unspecified, tcpdump searches the system interface list for the lowest numbered, configured up interface (excluding loopback), which may turn out to be, for example, ``eth0''.

$tcpdump -i eth0

-c count

Exit after receiving count packets.

$tcpdump -c 30 -i eth0

-D

--list-interfaces, prints the list of the network interfaces available on the system and on which tcpdump can capture packets. For each network interface, a number and an interface name, possibly followed by a text description of the interface, is printed. The interface name or the number can be supplied to the -i flag to specify an interface on which to capture.

$tcpdump -D

-w file

Write the raw packets to file rather than parsing and printing them out. They can later be printed with the -r option.

$tcpdump -w dump01.pcap -c 10 -i eth0

and now read the dumped file -

$tcpdump -r dump01.pcap

-n Don't convert addresses (i.e., host addresses, port numbers, etc.) to names.

$tcpdump -n

To capture packets from specific port, specify port number -

$tcpdump -i eth0 port 22

To capture packets from specific source -

$tcpdump -i eth0 src 192.168.1.1

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