Tcpdump is a CLI tool to capture raw network packets. This is useful for various forms of network troubleshooting. This cheat sheet covers all the basic and advanced options for tcpdump.
how-to-use-tcpdump
Tcpdump command is a famous network packet analyzing tool that is used to display TCP\IP & other network packets being transmitted over the network attached to the system on which tcpdump has been installed. Tcpdump uses libpcap library to capture the network packets & is available on almost all Linux/Unix flavors.
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TCPDUMP
README
Tcpdump is one of the best network analysis-tools ever for information security professionals.
Tcpdump is for everyone for hackers and people who have less of TCP/IP understanding.
OPTIONS
Below are some tcpdump options (with useful examples) that will help you working with the tool. They’re very easy to forget and/or confuse with other types of filters, i.e. ethereal, so hopefully this article can serve as a reference for you, as it does me:)
- The first of these is -n, which requests that names are not resolved, resulting in the IPs themselves.
- The second is -X, which displays both hex and ascii content within the packet.
- The final one is -S, which changes the display of sequence numbers to absolute rather than relative.
Show the packet’s contents in both hex and ascii.
tcpdump -X ....
Same as -X, but also shows the ethernet header.
tcpdump -XX
Show the list of available interfaces
tcpdump -D
Line-readable output (for viewing as you save, or sending to other commands)
tcpdump -l
Be less verbose (more quiet) with your output.
tcpdump -q
Give human-readable timestamp output.
tcpdump -t :
Give maximally human-readable timestamp output.
tcpdump -tttt :
Listen on the eth0 interface.
tcpdump -i eth0
Verbose output (more v’s gives more output).
tcpdump -vv
Only get x number of packets and then stop.
tcpdump -c
Define the snaplength (size) of the capture in bytes. Use -s0 to get everything, unless you are intentionally capturing less.
tcpdump -s
Print absolute sequence numbers.
tcpdump -S
Get the ethernet header as well.
tcpdump -e
Decrypt IPSEC traffic by providing an encryption key.
tcpdump -E
For more options, read manual:
- Find all options here
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