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A Tcpdump Tutorial and Primer
- teoruiz 15y agoThis is gold. Straight to my pinboard.
- 0x0 15y agoIf you are planning on poking around with captures in Wireshark, keep in mind that there have been quite a lot of exploits for that app, particularly in the various protocol dissectors. You should avoid working on captures with unknown content on an important machine. http://wiki.wireshark.org/Security http://wiki.wireshark.org/Security
- bitops 15y agoI love Daniel's site - he's written a ton of great tutorials and overviews of useful tools. tcpdump is definitely one of the "must know" tools.
- RickHull 15y agoOne thing I haven't been able to with tcpdump is just dump the data stream (payload) without any protocol bits. I presume it's possible with the right command line option incantation. Instead, for this purpose, I have used tcpflow. This is useful for listening in on data streams, potentially piping a binary message stream to a decoder for human-readable output.
- lkrubner 15y agoTip: sudo to root. I am ignorant as dirt on this subject. Maybe this was obvious to everyone else. I read this at work and decided to log into one of our main web servers. I tried following the directions but I got the error: tcpdump could not find a suitable device However this: which tcpdump showed me that tcpdump was on the machine. I look back at the examples in the article and saw he was root. Luckily, where I work, all of the engineers are given root access on most of the machines. So I could sudo to root. And then the examples worked. Don't get tripped up like I did.
- ggr 15y agongrep, http://ngrep.sourceforge.net http://ngrep.sourceforge.net