Tcpdump
Tcpdump is a commandline network analyzer tool or more technically a packet sniffer. It can be thought of as the commandline version of wireshark (only to a certain extent, since wireshark is much more powerful and capable).
As a commandline tool tcpdump is quite powerful for network analysis as filter expressions can be passed in and tcpdump would pick up only the matching packets and dump them.
In this tutorial we are going to learn to use tcpdump and how it can be used for network analysis. On ubunut for example it can be installed by typing the following in terminal
$ sudo apt-get install tcpdump
Tcpdump depends on libpcap library for sniffing packets. It is documented here.
For windows use the alternative called windump. It is compatible with tcpdump (in terms of usage and options). Download from http://www.winpcap.org/windump/default.htm
Basic sniffing
Lets start using tcpdump. The first simple command to use is tcpdump -n
$ sudo tcpdump -n
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes
16:34:57.266865 IP 173.194.36.6 > 192.168.1.101: ICMP echo reply, id 19941, seq 1176, length 64
16:34:57.267226 IP 192.168.1.101.21271 > 218.248.255.163.53: 23380+ PTR? 6.36.194.173.in-addr.arpa. (43)
16:34:57.274549 IP 218.248.255.163.53 > 192.168.1.101.21271: 23380 1/4/2 PTR bom04s01-in-f6.1e100.net....
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Tcpdump tutorial – Sniffing and analysing packets from the commandline
Tcpdump is a commandline network analyzer tool or more technically a packet sniffer. It can be thought of as the commandline version of wireshark (only to a certain extent, since wireshark is much more powerful and capable).
As a commandline tool tcpdump is quite powerful for network analysis as filter expressions can be passed in and tcpdump would pick up only the matching packets and dump them.
In this tutorial we are going to learn to use tcpdump and how it can be used for network analysis. On ubunut for example it can be installed by typing the following in terminal
$ sudo apt-get install tcpdump
Tcpdump depends on libpcap library for sniffing packets. It is documented here.
For windows use the alternative called windump. It is compatible with tcpdump (in terms of usage and options). Download from http://www.winpcap.org/windump/default.htm
Basic sniffing
Lets start using tcpdump. The first simple command to use is tcpdump -n
$ sudo tcpdump -n
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes
16:34:57.266865 IP 173.194.36.6 > 192.168.1.101: ICMP echo reply, id 19941, seq 1176, length 64
16:34:57.267226 IP 192.168.1.101.21271 > 218.248.255.163.53: 23380+ PTR? 6.36.194.173.in-addr.arpa. (43)
16:34:57.274549 IP 218.248.255.163.53 > 192.168.1.101.21271: 23380 1/4/2 PTR bom04s01-in-f6.1e100.net....
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Tcpdump tutorial – Sniffing and analysing packets from the commandline