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TCPDUMP Quick Reference

The document provides a quick reference for the tcpdump command including commonly used options and the syntax for constructing boolean packet filtering expressions. Key information includes: - Tcpdump prints headers of packets matching a boolean expression on an interface. Common options are -i to listen on an interface, -r to read from a saved file, and -w to write output to a file. - Expressions select which packets are dumped and can include host, port, protocol, length, and other fields compared with logical and relational operators. - Common packet matching primitives examine fields like hosts, ports, protocols, and lengths that can be combined with boolean logic.

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TCPDUMP Quick Reference

The document provides a quick reference for the tcpdump command including commonly used options and the syntax for constructing boolean packet filtering expressions. Key information includes: - Tcpdump prints headers of packets matching a boolean expression on an interface. Common options are -i to listen on an interface, -r to read from a saved file, and -w to write output to a file. - Expressions select which packets are dumped and can include host, port, protocol, length, and other fields compared with logical and relational operators. - Common packet matching primitives examine fields like hosts, ports, protocols, and lengths that can be combined with boolean logic.

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dst port port the packet is ip/tcp, ip/udp and has a destination port value of port.

TCPDUMP Quick Reference


src port port the packet has a source port value of port.
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http://www.bigfoot.com/~jialong_he tcp src port port matches only tcp packets whose source port is port.
if the packet has a length less than or equal to length. This is equivalent to:
TCPDUMP less length
len <= length.
Descriptions if the packet has a length greater than or equal to length. This is equivalent to:
greater length
http://www.tcpdump.org len >= length.
Tcpdump prints out the headers of packets on a network interface that match the boolean expression. True if the packet is an IP packet (see ip(4P)) of protocol type protocol. Protocol
can be a number or one of the names icmp, icmp6, igmp, igrp, pim , ah, esp, udp, or
tcpdump [ -aBdDeflnNOpqRStvxX ] [ -c count ] [ -F file ] [ -i interface ] [ -m module ] [ -r file ] ip proto protocol tcp. Note that the identifiers tcp, udp, and icmp are also keywords and must be
[ -s snaplen ] [ -T type ] [ -w file ] [ -E algo:secret ] [ expression ] escaped via backslash (\), which is \\ in the C-shell. Note that this primitive does
not chase protocol header chain.
Selected Options
ether broadcast the packet is an ethernet broadcast packet.
Use file as input for the filter expression. An additional expression given on the command line is
-F ignored. ip broadcast the packet is an IP broadcast packet.

Listen on interface. If unspecified, tcpdump searches the system interface list for the lowest ether multicast the packet is an ethernet multicast packet.
-I number. ip multicast the packet is an IP multicast packet.
-p Don't put the interface into promiscuous mode. if the packet is of ether type protocol. Protocol can be a number or one of the
-r Read packets from file (which was created with the -w option). Standard input is used if file is ``-''. ether proto protocol names ip, ip6, arp , rarp, atalk, aarp, decnet, sca, lat, mopdl, moprc, or iso. Note
these identifiers are also keywords and must be escaped via backslash (\).
Write the raw packets to file rather than parsing and printing them out. They can later be printed
-w with the -r option. Standard output is used if file is ``-''. expr is an arithmetic expression composed of integer constants (expressed in
standard C syntax), the normal binary operators [+, -, *, /, &, |], a length operator,
Expression (BPF Packet Filtering) expr relop expr and special packet data accessors.

expression selects which packets will be dumped. If no expression is given, all packets on the net will be relop is one of >, <, >=, <=, =, !=.
dumped. Otherwise, only packets for which expression is `true' will be dumped.
Proto is one of ether, fddi, tr, ip, arp, rarp, tcp, udp, icmp or ip6 .
proto [ expr : size ]
For example, `ether[0] & 1 != 0' catches all multicast traffic.
type: (1) host, (2) net, (3) port
Primitives may be combined using: A parenthesized group of primitives and operators (parentheses are
direction: (1) src, (2) dst, (3) src or dst, (4) src and dst special to the Shell and must be escaped).
protocol: (1) ether, (2) ip, (3) tcp, (4) udp, (5) arp, (6) rarp
Negation (`!' or `not').
logical operator: (1) and, (2) or, (3) not Concatenation (`&&' or `and').
dst host host destination field of the packet is host. Alternation (`||' or `or').

src host host source field of the packet is host. Example: To print traffic between helios and either hot or ace:
host host either source or destination of the packet is host. tcpdump host helios and \( hot or ace \)

ether dst ehost ethernet destination address is ehost.


To print traffic among local net 192.168.1.0
ether src ehost ethernet source address is ehost. tcpdump net 192.168.1.0 mask 255.255.255.0
ether host ehost either the ethernet source or destination address is ehost.
gateway host the packet used host as a gateway.
destination address of the packet has a network number of net. Net may be either a
dst net net
name from /etc/networks or a network number.
src net net source address of the packet has a network number of net.
net net either the source or destination address of the packet has a network number of net.
the IP address matches net with the specific netmask. May be qualified with src or
net net mask mask
dst..
net net/len the address matches net a netmask len bits wide. May be qualified with src or dst.

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