Yeah, my workflow is generally to use tshark (wireshark's command-line tool) for server-side capture, then scp file to local and use wireshark gui to poke aroun

Yeah, my workflow is generally to use tshark (wireshark's command-line tool) for server-side capture, then scp file to local and use wireshark gui to poke around. I find tshark's interface to be simpler than tcpdump. tcpdump feels like bringing a gun to a knife fight when all you want to do is look at application layer payloads/streams (http/etc). But it's good to know more about tcpdump than I did before, because when things get complicated it's good to have more options.