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Wireshark (Network Protocol Analyzier) : # Tcpdump - I Eth0

tcpdump is a command line packet analyzer tool used to capture and filter TCP/IP packets on Linux/Unix systems. It can capture packets from specific interfaces or based on options like IP addresses, ports, packet formats (ASCII, HEX). The captured packets can be saved in a pcap file for future analysis using tcpdump or Wireshark.

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Wireshark (Network Protocol Analyzier) : # Tcpdump - I Eth0

tcpdump is a command line packet analyzer tool used to capture and filter TCP/IP packets on Linux/Unix systems. It can capture packets from specific interfaces or based on options like IP addresses, ports, packet formats (ASCII, HEX). The captured packets can be saved in a pcap file for future analysis using tcpdump or Wireshark.

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pdump is a most powerful and widely used command-line packets sniffer or package analyzer tool

which is used to capture or filter TCP/IP packets that received or transferred over a network on a
specific interface. It is available under most of the Linux/Unix based operating systems. tcpdump
also gives us a option to save captured packets in a file for future analysis. It saves the file in a pcap
format, that can be viewed by tcpdump command or a open source GUI based tool called Wireshark
(Network Protocol Analyzier) that reads tcpdump pcap format files.
How to Install tcpdump in Linux
Many of Linux distributions already shipped with tcpdump tool, if in case you don’t have it on
systems, you can install it using following Yum command.

The command screen will scroll up until you interrupt and when we execute tcpdump command it
will captures from all the interfaces, however with -i switch only capture from desire interface.

# tcpdump -i eth0

2. Capture Only N Number of Packets


# tcpdump -c 5 -i eth0
3. Print Captured Packets in ASCII
The below tcpdump command with option -A displays the package in ASCII format. It is a
character-encoding scheme format.
# tcpdump -A -i eth0
4. Display Available Interfaces
To list number of available interfaces on the system, run the following command with -D
option.
# tcpdump -D
5. Display Captured Packets in HEX and ASCII
The following command with option -XX capture the data of each packet, including its link
level header in HEX and ASCII format.
# tcpdump -XX -i eth0
6. Capture and Save Packets in a File
As we said, that tcpdump has a feature to capture and save the file in a .pcap format, to do
this just execute command with -w option.
# tcpdump -w 0001.pcap -i eth0
7. Read Captured Packets File
To read and analyze captured packet 0001.pcap file use the command with -r option, as
shown below.
# tcpdump -r 0001.pcap
8. Capture IP address Packets
To capture packets for a specific interface, run the following command with option -n.
# tcpdump -n -i eth0
9. Capture only TCP Packets.
To capture packets based on TCP port, run the following command with option tcp.
# tcpdump -i eth0 tcp
10. Capture Packet from Specific Port
Let’s say you want to capture packets for specific port 22, execute the below command by
specifying port number 22 as shown below.
# tcpdump -i eth0 port 22
11. Capture Packets from source IP
To capture packets from source IP, say you want to capture packets for 192.168.0.2, use the
command as follows.
# tcpdump -i eth0 src 192.168.0.2
12. Capture Packets from destination IP
To capture packets from destination IP, say you want to capture packets for 50.116.66.139, use the
command as follows.
# tcpdump -i eth0 dst 50.116.66.139

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