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.\" @(#) $Header: /tcpdump/master/tcpdump/tcpdump.1.in,v 1.2 2008-11-09 23:35:03 mcr Exp $ (LBL)
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.\" WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
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.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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.TH TCPDUMP 1 "05 March 2009"
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.SH NAME
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tcpdump \- dump traffic on a network
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.na
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.B tcpdump
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[
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.B \-AbdDefhHIJKlLnNOpqRStuUvxX
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] [
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.B \-B
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.I buffer_size
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] [
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.B \-c
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.I count
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]
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.br
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.ti +8
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[
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.B \-C
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.I file_size
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] [
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.B \-G
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.I rotate_seconds
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] [
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.B \-F
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.I file
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]
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.br
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.ti +8
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[
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.B \-i
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.I interface
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]
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[
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.B \-j
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.I tstamp_type
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]
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[
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.B \-m
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.I module
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]
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[
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.B \-M
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.I secret
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]
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.br
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.ti +8
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[
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.B \-r
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.I file
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]
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[
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.B \-s
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.I snaplen
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]
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[
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.B \-T
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.I type
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]
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[
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.B \-w
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.I file
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]
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.br
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.ti +8
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[
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.B \-W
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.I filecount
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]
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.br
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.ti +8
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[
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.B \-E
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.I spi@ipaddr algo:secret,...
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]
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.br
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.ti +8
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[
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.B \-y
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.I datalinktype
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]
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[
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.B \-z
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.I postrotate-command
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]
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[
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.B \-Z
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.I user
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]
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.ti +8
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[
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.I expression
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]
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.br
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.ad
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.LP
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\fITcpdump\fP prints out a description of the contents of packets on a
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network interface that match the boolean \fIexpression\fP. It can also
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be run with the
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.B \-w
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flag, which causes it to save the packet data to a file for later
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analysis, and/or with the
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.B \-r
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flag, which causes it to read from a saved packet file rather than to
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read packets from a network interface. In all cases, only packets that
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match
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.I expression
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will be processed by
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.IR tcpdump .
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.LP
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.I Tcpdump
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will, if not run with the
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.B \-c
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flag, continue capturing packets until it is interrupted by a SIGINT
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signal (generated, for example, by typing your interrupt character,
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typically control-C) or a SIGTERM signal (typically generated with the
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.BR kill (1)
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command); if run with the
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.B \-c
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flag, it will capture packets until it is interrupted by a SIGINT or
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SIGTERM signal or the specified number of packets have been processed.
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.LP
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When
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.I tcpdump
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finishes capturing packets, it will report counts of:
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.IP
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packets ``captured'' (this is the number of packets that
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.I tcpdump
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has received and processed);
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.IP
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packets ``received by filter'' (the meaning of this depends on the OS on
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which you're running
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.IR tcpdump ,
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and possibly on the way the OS was configured - if a filter was
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specified on the command line, on some OSes it counts packets regardless
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of whether they were matched by the filter expression and, even if they
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were matched by the filter expression, regardless of whether
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.I tcpdump
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has read and processed them yet, on other OSes it counts only packets that were
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matched by the filter expression regardless of whether
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.I tcpdump
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has read and processed them yet, and on other OSes it counts only
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packets that were matched by the filter expression and were processed by
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.IR tcpdump );
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.IP
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packets ``dropped by kernel'' (this is the number of packets that were
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dropped, due to a lack of buffer space, by the packet capture mechanism
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in the OS on which
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.I tcpdump
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is running, if the OS reports that information to applications; if not,
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it will be reported as 0).
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.LP
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On platforms that support the SIGINFO signal, such as most BSDs
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(including Mac OS X) and Digital/Tru64 UNIX, it will report those counts
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when it receives a SIGINFO signal (generated, for example, by typing
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your ``status'' character, typically control-T, although on some
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platforms, such as Mac OS X, the ``status'' character is not set by
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default, so you must set it with
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.BR stty (1)
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in order to use it) and will continue capturing packets.
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.LP
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Reading packets from a network interface may require that you have
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special privileges; see the
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.B pcap (3PCAP)
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man page for details. Reading a saved packet file doesn't require
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special privileges.
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.SH OPTIONS
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.TP
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.B \-A
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Print each packet (minus its link level header) in ASCII. Handy for
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capturing web pages.
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.TP
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.B \-b
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Print the AS number in BGP packets in ASDOT notation rather than ASPLAIN
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notation.
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.TP
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.B \-B
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Set the operating system capture buffer size to \fIbuffer_size\fP.
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.TP
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.B \-c
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Exit after receiving \fIcount\fP packets.
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.TP
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.B \-C
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Before writing a raw packet to a savefile, check whether the file is
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currently larger than \fIfile_size\fP and, if so, close the current
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savefile and open a new one. Savefiles after the first savefile will
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have the name specified with the
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.B \-w
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flag, with a number after it, starting at 1 and continuing upward.
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The units of \fIfile_size\fP are millions of bytes (1,000,000 bytes,
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not 1,048,576 bytes).
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.TP
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.B \-d
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Dump the compiled packet-matching code in a human readable form to
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standard output and stop.
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.TP
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.B \-dd
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Dump packet-matching code as a
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.B C
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program fragment.
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.TP
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.B \-ddd
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Dump packet-matching code as decimal numbers (preceded with a count).
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.TP
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.B \-D
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Print the list of the network interfaces available on the system and on
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which
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.I tcpdump
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can capture packets. For each network interface, a number and an
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interface name, possibly followed by a text description of the
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interface, is printed. The interface name or the number can be supplied
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to the
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.B \-i
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flag to specify an interface on which to capture.
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.IP
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This can be useful on systems that don't have a command to list them
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(e.g., Windows systems, or UNIX systems lacking
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.BR "ifconfig \-a" );
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the number can be useful on Windows 2000 and later systems, where the
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interface name is a somewhat complex string.
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.IP
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The
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.B \-D
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flag will not be supported if
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.I tcpdump
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was built with an older version of
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.I libpcap
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that lacks the
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.B pcap_findalldevs()
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function.
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.TP
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.B \-e
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Print the link-level header on each dump line.
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.TP
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.B \-E
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Use \fIspi@ipaddr algo:secret\fP for decrypting IPsec ESP packets that
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are addressed to \fIaddr\fP and contain Security Parameter Index value
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\fIspi\fP. This combination may be repeated with comma or newline separation.
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.IP
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Note that setting the secret for IPv4 ESP packets is supported at this time.
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.IP
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Algorithms may be
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\fBdes-cbc\fP,
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\fB3des-cbc\fP,
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\fBblowfish-cbc\fP,
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\fBrc3-cbc\fP,
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\fBcast128-cbc\fP, or
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\fBnone\fP.
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The default is \fBdes-cbc\fP.
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The ability to decrypt packets is only present if \fItcpdump\fP was compiled
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with cryptography enabled.
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.IP
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\fIsecret\fP is the ASCII text for ESP secret key.
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If preceded by 0x, then a hex value will be read.
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.IP
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The option assumes RFC2406 ESP, not RFC1827 ESP.
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The option is only for debugging purposes, and
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the use of this option with a true `secret' key is discouraged.
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By presenting IPsec secret key onto command line
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you make it visible to others, via
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.IR ps (1)
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and other occasions.
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.IP
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In addition to the above syntax, the syntax \fIfile name\fP may be used
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to have tcpdump read the provided file in. The file is opened upon
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receiving the first ESP packet, so any special permissions that tcpdump
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may have been given should already have been given up.
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.TP
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.B \-f
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Print `foreign' IPv4 addresses numerically rather than symbolically
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(this option is intended to get around serious brain damage in
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Sun's NIS server \(em usually it hangs forever translating non-local
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internet numbers).
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.IP
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The test for `foreign' IPv4 addresses is done using the IPv4 address and
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netmask of the interface on which capture is being done. If that
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address or netmask are not available, available, either because the
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interface on which capture is being done has no address or netmask or
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because the capture is being done on the Linux "any" interface, which
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can capture on more than one interface, this option will not work
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correctly.
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.TP
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.B \-F
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Use \fIfile\fP as input for the filter expression.
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An additional expression given on the command line is ignored.
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.TP
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.B \-G
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If specified, rotates the dump file specified with the
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.B \-w
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option every \fIrotate_seconds\fP seconds.
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Savefiles will have the name specified by
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.B \-w
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which should include a time format as defined by
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.BR strftime (3).
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If no time format is specified, each new file will overwrite the previous.
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.IP
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If used in conjunction with the
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.B \-C
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option, filenames will take the form of `\fIfile\fP<count>'.
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.TP
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.B \-h
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Print the tcpdump and libpcap version strings, print a usage message,
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and exit.
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.TP
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.B \-H
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Attempt to detect 802.11s draft mesh headers.
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.TP
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.B \-i
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Listen on \fIinterface\fP.
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If unspecified, \fItcpdump\fP searches the system interface list for the
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lowest numbered, configured up interface (excluding loopback).
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Ties are broken by choosing the earliest match.
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.IP
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On Linux systems with 2.2 or later kernels, an
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.I interface
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argument of ``any'' can be used to capture packets from all interfaces.
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Note that captures on the ``any'' device will not be done in promiscuous
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mode.
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.IP
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If the
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.B \-D
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flag is supported, an interface number as printed by that flag can be
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used as the
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.I interface
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argument.
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.TP
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.B \-I
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Put the interface in "monitor mode"; this is supported only on IEEE
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802.11 Wi-Fi interfaces, and supported only on some operating systems.
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.IP
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Note that in monitor mode the adapter might disassociate from the
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network with which it's associated, so that you will not be able to use
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any wireless networks with that adapter. This could prevent accessing
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files on a network server, or resolving host names or network addresses,
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if you are capturing in monitor mode and are not connected to another
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network with another adapter.
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.IP
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This flag will affect the output of the
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.B \-L
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flag. If
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.B \-I
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isn't specified, only those link-layer types available when not in
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monitor mode will be shown; if
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.B \-I
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is specified, only those link-layer types available when in monitor mode
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will be shown.
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.TP
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.B \-j
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Set the time stamp type for the capture to \fItstamp_type\fP. The names
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to use for the time stamp types are given in
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.BR pcap-tstamp-type (@MAN_MISC_INFO@);
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not all the types listed there will necessarily be valid for any given
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interface.
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.TP
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.B \-J
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List the supported time stamp types for the interface and exit. If the
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time stamp type cannot be set for the interface, no time stamp types are
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listed.
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.TP
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.B \-K
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Don't attempt to verify IP, TCP, or UDP checksums. This is useful for
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interfaces that perform some or all of those checksum calculation in
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hardware; otherwise, all outgoing TCP checksums will be flagged as bad.
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.TP
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.B \-l
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Make stdout line buffered.
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Useful if you want to see the data
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while capturing it.
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E.g.,
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.br
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``tcpdump\ \ \-l\ \ |\ \ tee dat'' or
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``tcpdump\ \ \-l \ \ > dat\ \ &\ \ tail\ \ \-f\ \ dat''.
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.TP
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.B \-L
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List the known data link types for the interface, in the specified mode,
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and exit. The list of known data link types may be dependent on the
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specified mode; for example, on some platforms, a Wi-Fi interface might
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support one set of data link types when not in monitor mode (for
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example, it might support only fake Ethernet headers, or might support
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802.11 headers but not support 802.11 headers with radio information)
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and another set of data link types when in monitor mode (for example, it
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might support 802.11 headers, or 802.11 headers with radio information,
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only in monitor mode).
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.TP
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.B \-m
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Load SMI MIB module definitions from file \fImodule\fR.
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This option
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can be used several times to load several MIB modules into \fItcpdump\fP.
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.TP
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.B \-M
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Use \fIsecret\fP as a shared secret for validating the digests found in
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TCP segments with the TCP-MD5 option (RFC 2385), if present.
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.TP
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.B \-n
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Don't convert addresses (i.e., host addresses, port numbers, etc.) to names.
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.TP
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.B \-N
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Don't print domain name qualification of host names.
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E.g.,
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if you give this flag then \fItcpdump\fP will print ``nic''
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instead of ``nic.ddn.mil''.
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.TP
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.B \-O
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Do not run the packet-matching code optimizer.
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This is useful only
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if you suspect a bug in the optimizer.
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.TP
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.B \-p
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\fIDon't\fP put the interface
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into promiscuous mode.
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Note that the interface might be in promiscuous
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mode for some other reason; hence, `-p' cannot be used as an abbreviation for
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`ether host {local-hw-addr} or ether broadcast'.
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.TP
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.B \-q
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Quick (quiet?) output.
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Print less protocol information so output
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lines are shorter.
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.TP
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.B \-R
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Assume ESP/AH packets to be based on old specification (RFC1825 to RFC1829).
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If specified, \fItcpdump\fP will not print replay prevention field.
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Since there is no protocol version field in ESP/AH specification,
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\fItcpdump\fP cannot deduce the version of ESP/AH protocol.
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.TP
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.B \-r
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Read packets from \fIfile\fR (which was created with the
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.B \-w
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option).
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Standard input is used if \fIfile\fR is ``-''.
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.TP
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.B \-S
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Print absolute, rather than relative, TCP sequence numbers.
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.TP
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.B \-s
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Snarf \fIsnaplen\fP bytes of data from each packet rather than the
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default of 65535 bytes.
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Packets truncated because of a limited snapshot
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are indicated in the output with ``[|\fIproto\fP]'', where \fIproto\fP
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is the name of the protocol level at which the truncation has occurred.
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Note that taking larger snapshots both increases
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the amount of time it takes to process packets and, effectively,
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decreases the amount of packet buffering.
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This may cause packets to be
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lost.
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You should limit \fIsnaplen\fP to the smallest number that will
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capture the protocol information you're interested in.
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Setting
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\fIsnaplen\fP to 0 sets it to the default of 65535,
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for backwards compatibility with recent older versions of
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.IR tcpdump .
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.TP
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.B \-T
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Force packets selected by "\fIexpression\fP" to be interpreted the
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specified \fItype\fR.
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Currently known types are
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\fBaodv\fR (Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector protocol),
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\fBcnfp\fR (Cisco NetFlow protocol),
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\fBrpc\fR (Remote Procedure Call),
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\fBrtp\fR (Real-Time Applications protocol),
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\fBrtcp\fR (Real-Time Applications control protocol),
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\fBsnmp\fR (Simple Network Management Protocol),
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\fBtftp\fR (Trivial File Transfer Protocol),
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\fBvat\fR (Visual Audio Tool),
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and
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\fBwb\fR (distributed White Board).
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.TP
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.B \-t
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\fIDon't\fP print a timestamp on each dump line.
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.TP
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.B \-tt
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Print an unformatted timestamp on each dump line.
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.TP
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.B \-ttt
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Print a delta (micro-second resolution) between current and previous line
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on each dump line.
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.TP
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.B \-tttt
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Print a timestamp in default format proceeded by date on each dump line.
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.TP
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.B \-ttttt
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Print a delta (micro-second resolution) between current and first line
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on each dump line.
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.TP
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.B \-u
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Print undecoded NFS handles.
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.TP
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.B \-U
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Make output saved via the
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.B \-w
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option ``packet-buffered''; i.e., as each packet is saved, it will be
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written to the output file, rather than being written only when the
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output buffer fills.
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.IP
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The
|
|
.B \-U
|
|
flag will not be supported if
|
|
.I tcpdump
|
|
was built with an older version of
|
|
.I libpcap
|
|
that lacks the
|
|
.B pcap_dump_flush()
|
|
function.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B \-v
|
|
When parsing and printing, produce (slightly more) verbose output.
|
|
For example, the time to live,
|
|
identification, total length and options in an IP packet are printed.
|
|
Also enables additional packet integrity checks such as verifying the
|
|
IP and ICMP header checksum.
|
|
.IP
|
|
When writing to a file with the
|
|
.B \-w
|
|
option, report, every 10 seconds, the number of packets captured.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B \-vv
|
|
Even more verbose output.
|
|
For example, additional fields are
|
|
printed from NFS reply packets, and SMB packets are fully decoded.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B \-vvv
|
|
Even more verbose output.
|
|
For example,
|
|
telnet \fBSB\fP ... \fBSE\fP options
|
|
are printed in full.
|
|
With
|
|
.B \-X
|
|
Telnet options are printed in hex as well.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B \-w
|
|
Write the raw packets to \fIfile\fR rather than parsing and printing
|
|
them out.
|
|
They can later be printed with the \-r option.
|
|
Standard output is used if \fIfile\fR is ``-''.
|
|
See
|
|
.BR pcap-savefile (@MAN_FILE_FORMATS@)
|
|
for a description of the file format.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B \-W
|
|
Used in conjunction with the
|
|
.B \-C
|
|
option, this will limit the number
|
|
of files created to the specified number, and begin overwriting files
|
|
from the beginning, thus creating a 'rotating' buffer.
|
|
In addition, it will name
|
|
the files with enough leading 0s to support the maximum number of
|
|
files, allowing them to sort correctly.
|
|
.IP
|
|
Used in conjunction with the
|
|
.B \-G
|
|
option, this will limit the number of rotated dump files that get
|
|
created, exiting with status 0 when reaching the limit. If used with
|
|
.B \-C
|
|
as well, the behavior will result in cyclical files per timeslice.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B \-x
|
|
When parsing and printing,
|
|
in addition to printing the headers of each packet, print the data of
|
|
each packet (minus its link level header) in hex.
|
|
The smaller of the entire packet or
|
|
.I snaplen
|
|
bytes will be printed. Note that this is the entire link-layer
|
|
packet, so for link layers that pad (e.g. Ethernet), the padding bytes
|
|
will also be printed when the higher layer packet is shorter than the
|
|
required padding.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B \-xx
|
|
When parsing and printing,
|
|
in addition to printing the headers of each packet, print the data of
|
|
each packet,
|
|
.I including
|
|
its link level header, in hex.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B \-X
|
|
When parsing and printing,
|
|
in addition to printing the headers of each packet, print the data of
|
|
each packet (minus its link level header) in hex and ASCII.
|
|
This is very handy for analysing new protocols.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B \-XX
|
|
When parsing and printing,
|
|
in addition to printing the headers of each packet, print the data of
|
|
each packet,
|
|
.I including
|
|
its link level header, in hex and ASCII.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B \-y
|
|
Set the data link type to use while capturing packets to \fIdatalinktype\fP.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B \-z
|
|
Used in conjunction with the
|
|
.B -C
|
|
or
|
|
.B -G
|
|
options, this will make
|
|
.I tcpdump
|
|
run "
|
|
.I command file
|
|
" where
|
|
.I file
|
|
is the savefile being closed after each rotation. For example, specifying
|
|
.B \-z gzip
|
|
or
|
|
.B \-z bzip2
|
|
will compress each savefile using gzip or bzip2.
|
|
.IP
|
|
Note that tcpdump will run the command in parallel to the capture, using
|
|
the lowest priority so that this doesn't disturb the capture process.
|
|
.IP
|
|
And in case you would like to use a command that itself takes flags or
|
|
different arguments, you can always write a shell script that will take the
|
|
savefile name as the only argument, make the flags & arguments arrangements
|
|
and execute the command that you want.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B \-Z
|
|
If
|
|
.I tcpdump
|
|
is running as root, after opening the capture device or input savefile,
|
|
but before opening any savefiles for output, change the user ID to
|
|
.I user
|
|
and the group ID to the primary group of
|
|
.IR user .
|
|
.IP
|
|
This behavior can also be enabled by default at compile time.
|
|
.IP "\fI expression\fP"
|
|
.RS
|
|
selects which packets will be dumped.
|
|
If no \fIexpression\fP
|
|
is given, all packets on the net will be dumped.
|
|
Otherwise,
|
|
only packets for which \fIexpression\fP is `true' will be dumped.
|
|
.LP
|
|
For the \fIexpression\fP syntax, see
|
|
.BR pcap-filter (@MAN_MISC_INFO@).
|
|
.LP
|
|
Expression arguments can be passed to \fItcpdump\fP as either a single
|
|
argument or as multiple arguments, whichever is more convenient.
|
|
Generally, if the expression contains Shell metacharacters, it is
|
|
easier to pass it as a single, quoted argument.
|
|
Multiple arguments are concatenated with spaces before being parsed.
|
|
.SH EXAMPLES
|
|
.LP
|
|
To print all packets arriving at or departing from \fIsundown\fP:
|
|
.RS
|
|
.nf
|
|
\fBtcpdump host sundown\fP
|
|
.fi
|
|
.RE
|
|
.LP
|
|
To print traffic between \fIhelios\fR and either \fIhot\fR or \fIace\fR:
|
|
.RS
|
|
.nf
|
|
\fBtcpdump host helios and \\( hot or ace \\)\fP
|
|
.fi
|
|
.RE
|
|
.LP
|
|
To print all IP packets between \fIace\fR and any host except \fIhelios\fR:
|
|
.RS
|
|
.nf
|
|
\fBtcpdump ip host ace and not helios\fP
|
|
.fi
|
|
.RE
|
|
.LP
|
|
To print all traffic between local hosts and hosts at Berkeley:
|
|
.RS
|
|
.nf
|
|
.B
|
|
tcpdump net ucb-ether
|
|
.fi
|
|
.RE
|
|
.LP
|
|
To print all ftp traffic through internet gateway \fIsnup\fP:
|
|
(note that the expression is quoted to prevent the shell from
|
|
(mis-)interpreting the parentheses):
|
|
.RS
|
|
.nf
|
|
.B
|
|
tcpdump 'gateway snup and (port ftp or ftp-data)'
|
|
.fi
|
|
.RE
|
|
.LP
|
|
To print traffic neither sourced from nor destined for local hosts
|
|
(if you gateway to one other net, this stuff should never make it
|
|
onto your local net).
|
|
.RS
|
|
.nf
|
|
.B
|
|
tcpdump ip and not net \fIlocalnet\fP
|
|
.fi
|
|
.RE
|
|
.LP
|
|
To print the start and end packets (the SYN and FIN packets) of each
|
|
TCP conversation that involves a non-local host.
|
|
.RS
|
|
.nf
|
|
.B
|
|
tcpdump 'tcp[tcpflags] & (tcp-syn|tcp-fin) != 0 and not src and dst net \fIlocalnet\fP'
|
|
.fi
|
|
.RE
|
|
.LP
|
|
To print all IPv4 HTTP packets to and from port 80, i.e. print only
|
|
packets that contain data, not, for example, SYN and FIN packets and
|
|
ACK-only packets. (IPv6 is left as an exercise for the reader.)
|
|
.RS
|
|
.nf
|
|
.B
|
|
tcpdump 'tcp port 80 and (((ip[2:2] - ((ip[0]&0xf)<<2)) - ((tcp[12]&0xf0)>>2)) != 0)'
|
|
.fi
|
|
.RE
|
|
.LP
|
|
To print IP packets longer than 576 bytes sent through gateway \fIsnup\fP:
|
|
.RS
|
|
.nf
|
|
.B
|
|
tcpdump 'gateway snup and ip[2:2] > 576'
|
|
.fi
|
|
.RE
|
|
.LP
|
|
To print IP broadcast or multicast packets that were
|
|
.I not
|
|
sent via Ethernet broadcast or multicast:
|
|
.RS
|
|
.nf
|
|
.B
|
|
tcpdump 'ether[0] & 1 = 0 and ip[16] >= 224'
|
|
.fi
|
|
.RE
|
|
.LP
|
|
To print all ICMP packets that are not echo requests/replies (i.e., not
|
|
ping packets):
|
|
.RS
|
|
.nf
|
|
.B
|
|
tcpdump 'icmp[icmptype] != icmp-echo and icmp[icmptype] != icmp-echoreply'
|
|
.fi
|
|
.RE
|
|
.SH OUTPUT FORMAT
|
|
.LP
|
|
The output of \fItcpdump\fP is protocol dependent.
|
|
The following
|
|
gives a brief description and examples of most of the formats.
|
|
.de HD
|
|
.sp 1.5
|
|
.B
|
|
..
|
|
.HD
|
|
Link Level Headers
|
|
.LP
|
|
If the '-e' option is given, the link level header is printed out.
|
|
On Ethernets, the source and destination addresses, protocol,
|
|
and packet length are printed.
|
|
.LP
|
|
On FDDI networks, the '-e' option causes \fItcpdump\fP to print
|
|
the `frame control' field, the source and destination addresses,
|
|
and the packet length.
|
|
(The `frame control' field governs the
|
|
interpretation of the rest of the packet.
|
|
Normal packets (such
|
|
as those containing IP datagrams) are `async' packets, with a priority
|
|
value between 0 and 7; for example, `\fBasync4\fR'.
|
|
Such packets
|
|
are assumed to contain an 802.2 Logical Link Control (LLC) packet;
|
|
the LLC header is printed if it is \fInot\fR an ISO datagram or a
|
|
so-called SNAP packet.
|
|
.LP
|
|
On Token Ring networks, the '-e' option causes \fItcpdump\fP to print
|
|
the `access control' and `frame control' fields, the source and
|
|
destination addresses, and the packet length.
|
|
As on FDDI networks,
|
|
packets are assumed to contain an LLC packet.
|
|
Regardless of whether
|
|
the '-e' option is specified or not, the source routing information is
|
|
printed for source-routed packets.
|
|
.LP
|
|
On 802.11 networks, the '-e' option causes \fItcpdump\fP to print
|
|
the `frame control' fields, all of the addresses in the 802.11 header,
|
|
and the packet length.
|
|
As on FDDI networks,
|
|
packets are assumed to contain an LLC packet.
|
|
.LP
|
|
\fI(N.B.: The following description assumes familiarity with
|
|
the SLIP compression algorithm described in RFC-1144.)\fP
|
|
.LP
|
|
On SLIP links, a direction indicator (``I'' for inbound, ``O'' for outbound),
|
|
packet type, and compression information are printed out.
|
|
The packet type is printed first.
|
|
The three types are \fIip\fP, \fIutcp\fP, and \fIctcp\fP.
|
|
No further link information is printed for \fIip\fR packets.
|
|
For TCP packets, the connection identifier is printed following the type.
|
|
If the packet is compressed, its encoded header is printed out.
|
|
The special cases are printed out as
|
|
\fB*S+\fIn\fR and \fB*SA+\fIn\fR, where \fIn\fR is the amount by which
|
|
the sequence number (or sequence number and ack) has changed.
|
|
If it is not a special case,
|
|
zero or more changes are printed.
|
|
A change is indicated by U (urgent pointer), W (window), A (ack),
|
|
S (sequence number), and I (packet ID), followed by a delta (+n or -n),
|
|
or a new value (=n).
|
|
Finally, the amount of data in the packet and compressed header length
|
|
are printed.
|
|
.LP
|
|
For example, the following line shows an outbound compressed TCP packet,
|
|
with an implicit connection identifier; the ack has changed by 6,
|
|
the sequence number by 49, and the packet ID by 6; there are 3 bytes of
|
|
data and 6 bytes of compressed header:
|
|
.RS
|
|
.nf
|
|
\fBO ctcp * A+6 S+49 I+6 3 (6)\fP
|
|
.fi
|
|
.RE
|
|
.HD
|
|
ARP/RARP Packets
|
|
.LP
|
|
Arp/rarp output shows the type of request and its arguments.
|
|
The
|
|
format is intended to be self explanatory.
|
|
Here is a short sample taken from the start of an `rlogin' from
|
|
host \fIrtsg\fP to host \fIcsam\fP:
|
|
.RS
|
|
.nf
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
\f(CWarp who-has csam tell rtsg
|
|
arp reply csam is-at CSAM\fR
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
.fi
|
|
.RE
|
|
The first line says that rtsg sent an arp packet asking
|
|
for the Ethernet address of internet host csam.
|
|
Csam
|
|
replies with its Ethernet address (in this example, Ethernet addresses
|
|
are in caps and internet addresses in lower case).
|
|
.LP
|
|
This would look less redundant if we had done \fItcpdump \-n\fP:
|
|
.RS
|
|
.nf
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
\f(CWarp who-has 128.3.254.6 tell 128.3.254.68
|
|
arp reply 128.3.254.6 is-at 02:07:01:00:01:c4\fP
|
|
.fi
|
|
.RE
|
|
.LP
|
|
If we had done \fItcpdump \-e\fP, the fact that the first packet is
|
|
broadcast and the second is point-to-point would be visible:
|
|
.RS
|
|
.nf
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
\f(CWRTSG Broadcast 0806 64: arp who-has csam tell rtsg
|
|
CSAM RTSG 0806 64: arp reply csam is-at CSAM\fR
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
.fi
|
|
.RE
|
|
For the first packet this says the Ethernet source address is RTSG, the
|
|
destination is the Ethernet broadcast address, the type field
|
|
contained hex 0806 (type ETHER_ARP) and the total length was 64 bytes.
|
|
.HD
|
|
TCP Packets
|
|
.LP
|
|
\fI(N.B.:The following description assumes familiarity with
|
|
the TCP protocol described in RFC-793.
|
|
If you are not familiar
|
|
with the protocol, neither this description nor \fItcpdump\fP will
|
|
be of much use to you.)\fP
|
|
.LP
|
|
The general format of a tcp protocol line is:
|
|
.RS
|
|
.nf
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
\fIsrc > dst: flags data-seqno ack window urgent options\fP
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
.fi
|
|
.RE
|
|
\fISrc\fP and \fIdst\fP are the source and destination IP
|
|
addresses and ports.
|
|
\fIFlags\fP are some combination of S (SYN),
|
|
F (FIN), P (PUSH), R (RST), U (URG), W (ECN CWR), E (ECN-Echo) or
|
|
`.' (ACK), or `none' if no flags are set.
|
|
\fIData-seqno\fP describes the portion of sequence space covered
|
|
by the data in this packet (see example below).
|
|
\fIAck\fP is sequence number of the next data expected the other
|
|
direction on this connection.
|
|
\fIWindow\fP is the number of bytes of receive buffer space available
|
|
the other direction on this connection.
|
|
\fIUrg\fP indicates there is `urgent' data in the packet.
|
|
\fIOptions\fP are tcp options enclosed in angle brackets (e.g., <mss 1024>).
|
|
.LP
|
|
\fISrc, dst\fP and \fIflags\fP are always present.
|
|
The other fields
|
|
depend on the contents of the packet's tcp protocol header and
|
|
are output only if appropriate.
|
|
.LP
|
|
Here is the opening portion of an rlogin from host \fIrtsg\fP to
|
|
host \fIcsam\fP.
|
|
.RS
|
|
.nf
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
\s-2\f(CWrtsg.1023 > csam.login: S 768512:768512(0) win 4096 <mss 1024>
|
|
csam.login > rtsg.1023: S 947648:947648(0) ack 768513 win 4096 <mss 1024>
|
|
rtsg.1023 > csam.login: . ack 1 win 4096
|
|
rtsg.1023 > csam.login: P 1:2(1) ack 1 win 4096
|
|
csam.login > rtsg.1023: . ack 2 win 4096
|
|
rtsg.1023 > csam.login: P 2:21(19) ack 1 win 4096
|
|
csam.login > rtsg.1023: P 1:2(1) ack 21 win 4077
|
|
csam.login > rtsg.1023: P 2:3(1) ack 21 win 4077 urg 1
|
|
csam.login > rtsg.1023: P 3:4(1) ack 21 win 4077 urg 1\fR\s+2
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
.fi
|
|
.RE
|
|
The first line says that tcp port 1023 on rtsg sent a packet
|
|
to port \fIlogin\fP
|
|
on csam.
|
|
The \fBS\fP indicates that the \fISYN\fP flag was set.
|
|
The packet sequence number was 768512 and it contained no data.
|
|
(The notation is `first:last(nbytes)' which means `sequence
|
|
numbers \fIfirst\fP
|
|
up to but not including \fIlast\fP which is \fInbytes\fP bytes of user data'.)
|
|
There was no piggy-backed ack, the available receive window was 4096
|
|
bytes and there was a max-segment-size option requesting an mss of
|
|
1024 bytes.
|
|
.LP
|
|
Csam replies with a similar packet except it includes a piggy-backed
|
|
ack for rtsg's SYN.
|
|
Rtsg then acks csam's SYN.
|
|
The `.' means the ACK flag was set.
|
|
The packet contained no data so there is no data sequence number.
|
|
Note that the ack sequence
|
|
number is a small integer (1).
|
|
The first time \fItcpdump\fP sees a
|
|
tcp `conversation', it prints the sequence number from the packet.
|
|
On subsequent packets of the conversation, the difference between
|
|
the current packet's sequence number and this initial sequence number
|
|
is printed.
|
|
This means that sequence numbers after the
|
|
first can be interpreted
|
|
as relative byte positions in the conversation's data stream (with the
|
|
first data byte each direction being `1').
|
|
`-S' will override this
|
|
feature, causing the original sequence numbers to be output.
|
|
.LP
|
|
On the 6th line, rtsg sends csam 19 bytes of data (bytes 2 through 20
|
|
in the rtsg \(-> csam side of the conversation).
|
|
The PUSH flag is set in the packet.
|
|
On the 7th line, csam says it's received data sent by rtsg up to
|
|
but not including byte 21.
|
|
Most of this data is apparently sitting in the
|
|
socket buffer since csam's receive window has gotten 19 bytes smaller.
|
|
Csam also sends one byte of data to rtsg in this packet.
|
|
On the 8th and 9th lines,
|
|
csam sends two bytes of urgent, pushed data to rtsg.
|
|
.LP
|
|
If the snapshot was small enough that \fItcpdump\fP didn't capture
|
|
the full TCP header, it interprets as much of the header as it can
|
|
and then reports ``[|\fItcp\fP]'' to indicate the remainder could not
|
|
be interpreted.
|
|
If the header contains a bogus option (one with a length
|
|
that's either too small or beyond the end of the header), \fItcpdump\fP
|
|
reports it as ``[\fIbad opt\fP]'' and does not interpret any further
|
|
options (since it's impossible to tell where they start).
|
|
If the header
|
|
length indicates options are present but the IP datagram length is not
|
|
long enough for the options to actually be there, \fItcpdump\fP reports
|
|
it as ``[\fIbad hdr length\fP]''.
|
|
.HD
|
|
.B Capturing TCP packets with particular flag combinations (SYN-ACK, URG-ACK, etc.)
|
|
.PP
|
|
There are 8 bits in the control bits section of the TCP header:
|
|
.IP
|
|
.I CWR | ECE | URG | ACK | PSH | RST | SYN | FIN
|
|
.PP
|
|
Let's assume that we want to watch packets used in establishing
|
|
a TCP connection.
|
|
Recall that TCP uses a 3-way handshake protocol
|
|
when it initializes a new connection; the connection sequence with
|
|
regard to the TCP control bits is
|
|
.PP
|
|
.RS
|
|
1) Caller sends SYN
|
|
.RE
|
|
.RS
|
|
2) Recipient responds with SYN, ACK
|
|
.RE
|
|
.RS
|
|
3) Caller sends ACK
|
|
.RE
|
|
.PP
|
|
Now we're interested in capturing packets that have only the
|
|
SYN bit set (Step 1).
|
|
Note that we don't want packets from step 2
|
|
(SYN-ACK), just a plain initial SYN.
|
|
What we need is a correct filter
|
|
expression for \fItcpdump\fP.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Recall the structure of a TCP header without options:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
0 15 31
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
| source port | destination port |
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
| sequence number |
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
| acknowledgment number |
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
| HL | rsvd |C|E|U|A|P|R|S|F| window size |
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
| TCP checksum | urgent pointer |
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
.fi
|
|
.PP
|
|
A TCP header usually holds 20 octets of data, unless options are
|
|
present.
|
|
The first line of the graph contains octets 0 - 3, the
|
|
second line shows octets 4 - 7 etc.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Starting to count with 0, the relevant TCP control bits are contained
|
|
in octet 13:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
0 7| 15| 23| 31
|
|
----------------|---------------|---------------|----------------
|
|
| HL | rsvd |C|E|U|A|P|R|S|F| window size |
|
|
----------------|---------------|---------------|----------------
|
|
| | 13th octet | | |
|
|
.fi
|
|
.PP
|
|
Let's have a closer look at octet no. 13:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
| |
|
|
|---------------|
|
|
|C|E|U|A|P|R|S|F|
|
|
|---------------|
|
|
|7 5 3 0|
|
|
.fi
|
|
.PP
|
|
These are the TCP control bits we are interested
|
|
in.
|
|
We have numbered the bits in this octet from 0 to 7, right to
|
|
left, so the PSH bit is bit number 3, while the URG bit is number 5.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Recall that we want to capture packets with only SYN set.
|
|
Let's see what happens to octet 13 if a TCP datagram arrives
|
|
with the SYN bit set in its header:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
|C|E|U|A|P|R|S|F|
|
|
|---------------|
|
|
|0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0|
|
|
|---------------|
|
|
|7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0|
|
|
.fi
|
|
.PP
|
|
Looking at the
|
|
control bits section we see that only bit number 1 (SYN) is set.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Assuming that octet number 13 is an 8-bit unsigned integer in
|
|
network byte order, the binary value of this octet is
|
|
.IP
|
|
00000010
|
|
.PP
|
|
and its decimal representation is
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
|
|
0*2 + 0*2 + 0*2 + 0*2 + 0*2 + 0*2 + 1*2 + 0*2 = 2
|
|
.fi
|
|
.PP
|
|
We're almost done, because now we know that if only SYN is set,
|
|
the value of the 13th octet in the TCP header, when interpreted
|
|
as a 8-bit unsigned integer in network byte order, must be exactly 2.
|
|
.PP
|
|
This relationship can be expressed as
|
|
.RS
|
|
.B
|
|
tcp[13] == 2
|
|
.RE
|
|
.PP
|
|
We can use this expression as the filter for \fItcpdump\fP in order
|
|
to watch packets which have only SYN set:
|
|
.RS
|
|
.B
|
|
tcpdump -i xl0 tcp[13] == 2
|
|
.RE
|
|
.PP
|
|
The expression says "let the 13th octet of a TCP datagram have
|
|
the decimal value 2", which is exactly what we want.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Now, let's assume that we need to capture SYN packets, but we
|
|
don't care if ACK or any other TCP control bit is set at the
|
|
same time.
|
|
Let's see what happens to octet 13 when a TCP datagram
|
|
with SYN-ACK set arrives:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
|C|E|U|A|P|R|S|F|
|
|
|---------------|
|
|
|0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0|
|
|
|---------------|
|
|
|7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0|
|
|
.fi
|
|
.PP
|
|
Now bits 1 and 4 are set in the 13th octet.
|
|
The binary value of
|
|
octet 13 is
|
|
.IP
|
|
00010010
|
|
.PP
|
|
which translates to decimal
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
|
|
0*2 + 0*2 + 0*2 + 1*2 + 0*2 + 0*2 + 1*2 + 0*2 = 18
|
|
.fi
|
|
.PP
|
|
Now we can't just use 'tcp[13] == 18' in the \fItcpdump\fP filter
|
|
expression, because that would select only those packets that have
|
|
SYN-ACK set, but not those with only SYN set.
|
|
Remember that we don't care
|
|
if ACK or any other control bit is set as long as SYN is set.
|
|
.PP
|
|
In order to achieve our goal, we need to logically AND the
|
|
binary value of octet 13 with some other value to preserve
|
|
the SYN bit.
|
|
We know that we want SYN to be set in any case,
|
|
so we'll logically AND the value in the 13th octet with
|
|
the binary value of a SYN:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.nf
|
|
|
|
00010010 SYN-ACK 00000010 SYN
|
|
AND 00000010 (we want SYN) AND 00000010 (we want SYN)
|
|
-------- --------
|
|
= 00000010 = 00000010
|
|
.fi
|
|
.PP
|
|
We see that this AND operation delivers the same result
|
|
regardless whether ACK or another TCP control bit is set.
|
|
The decimal representation of the AND value as well as
|
|
the result of this operation is 2 (binary 00000010),
|
|
so we know that for packets with SYN set the following
|
|
relation must hold true:
|
|
.IP
|
|
( ( value of octet 13 ) AND ( 2 ) ) == ( 2 )
|
|
.PP
|
|
This points us to the \fItcpdump\fP filter expression
|
|
.RS
|
|
.B
|
|
tcpdump -i xl0 'tcp[13] & 2 == 2'
|
|
.RE
|
|
.PP
|
|
Some offsets and field values may be expressed as names
|
|
rather than as numeric values. For example tcp[13] may
|
|
be replaced with tcp[tcpflags]. The following TCP flag
|
|
field values are also available: tcp-fin, tcp-syn, tcp-rst,
|
|
tcp-push, tcp-act, tcp-urg.
|
|
.PP
|
|
This can be demonstrated as:
|
|
.RS
|
|
.B
|
|
tcpdump -i xl0 'tcp[tcpflags] & tcp-push != 0'
|
|
.RE
|
|
.PP
|
|
Note that you should use single quotes or a backslash
|
|
in the expression to hide the AND ('&') special character
|
|
from the shell.
|
|
.HD
|
|
.B
|
|
UDP Packets
|
|
.LP
|
|
UDP format is illustrated by this rwho packet:
|
|
.RS
|
|
.nf
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
\f(CWactinide.who > broadcast.who: udp 84\fP
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
.fi
|
|
.RE
|
|
This says that port \fIwho\fP on host \fIactinide\fP sent a udp
|
|
datagram to port \fIwho\fP on host \fIbroadcast\fP, the Internet
|
|
broadcast address.
|
|
The packet contained 84 bytes of user data.
|
|
.LP
|
|
Some UDP services are recognized (from the source or destination
|
|
port number) and the higher level protocol information printed.
|
|
In particular, Domain Name service requests (RFC-1034/1035) and Sun
|
|
RPC calls (RFC-1050) to NFS.
|
|
.HD
|
|
UDP Name Server Requests
|
|
.LP
|
|
\fI(N.B.:The following description assumes familiarity with
|
|
the Domain Service protocol described in RFC-1035.
|
|
If you are not familiar
|
|
with the protocol, the following description will appear to be written
|
|
in greek.)\fP
|
|
.LP
|
|
Name server requests are formatted as
|
|
.RS
|
|
.nf
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
\fIsrc > dst: id op? flags qtype qclass name (len)\fP
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
\f(CWh2opolo.1538 > helios.domain: 3+ A? ucbvax.berkeley.edu. (37)\fR
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
.fi
|
|
.RE
|
|
Host \fIh2opolo\fP asked the domain server on \fIhelios\fP for an
|
|
address record (qtype=A) associated with the name \fIucbvax.berkeley.edu.\fP
|
|
The query id was `3'.
|
|
The `+' indicates the \fIrecursion desired\fP flag
|
|
was set.
|
|
The query length was 37 bytes, not including the UDP and
|
|
IP protocol headers.
|
|
The query operation was the normal one, \fIQuery\fP,
|
|
so the op field was omitted.
|
|
If the op had been anything else, it would
|
|
have been printed between the `3' and the `+'.
|
|
Similarly, the qclass was the normal one,
|
|
\fIC_IN\fP, and omitted.
|
|
Any other qclass would have been printed
|
|
immediately after the `A'.
|
|
.LP
|
|
A few anomalies are checked and may result in extra fields enclosed in
|
|
square brackets: If a query contains an answer, authority records or
|
|
additional records section,
|
|
.IR ancount ,
|
|
.IR nscount ,
|
|
or
|
|
.I arcount
|
|
are printed as `[\fIn\fPa]', `[\fIn\fPn]' or `[\fIn\fPau]' where \fIn\fP
|
|
is the appropriate count.
|
|
If any of the response bits are set (AA, RA or rcode) or any of the
|
|
`must be zero' bits are set in bytes two and three, `[b2&3=\fIx\fP]'
|
|
is printed, where \fIx\fP is the hex value of header bytes two and three.
|
|
.HD
|
|
UDP Name Server Responses
|
|
.LP
|
|
Name server responses are formatted as
|
|
.RS
|
|
.nf
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
\fIsrc > dst: id op rcode flags a/n/au type class data (len)\fP
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
\f(CWhelios.domain > h2opolo.1538: 3 3/3/7 A 128.32.137.3 (273)
|
|
helios.domain > h2opolo.1537: 2 NXDomain* 0/1/0 (97)\fR
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
.fi
|
|
.RE
|
|
In the first example, \fIhelios\fP responds to query id 3 from \fIh2opolo\fP
|
|
with 3 answer records, 3 name server records and 7 additional records.
|
|
The first answer record is type A (address) and its data is internet
|
|
address 128.32.137.3.
|
|
The total size of the response was 273 bytes,
|
|
excluding UDP and IP headers.
|
|
The op (Query) and response code
|
|
(NoError) were omitted, as was the class (C_IN) of the A record.
|
|
.LP
|
|
In the second example, \fIhelios\fP responds to query 2 with a
|
|
response code of non-existent domain (NXDomain) with no answers,
|
|
one name server and no authority records.
|
|
The `*' indicates that
|
|
the \fIauthoritative answer\fP bit was set.
|
|
Since there were no
|
|
answers, no type, class or data were printed.
|
|
.LP
|
|
Other flag characters that might appear are `\-' (recursion available,
|
|
RA, \fInot\fP set) and `|' (truncated message, TC, set).
|
|
If the
|
|
`question' section doesn't contain exactly one entry, `[\fIn\fPq]'
|
|
is printed.
|
|
.HD
|
|
SMB/CIFS decoding
|
|
.LP
|
|
\fItcpdump\fP now includes fairly extensive SMB/CIFS/NBT decoding for data
|
|
on UDP/137, UDP/138 and TCP/139.
|
|
Some primitive decoding of IPX and
|
|
NetBEUI SMB data is also done.
|
|
.LP
|
|
By default a fairly minimal decode is done, with a much more detailed
|
|
decode done if -v is used.
|
|
Be warned that with -v a single SMB packet
|
|
may take up a page or more, so only use -v if you really want all the
|
|
gory details.
|
|
.LP
|
|
For information on SMB packet formats and what all the fields mean see
|
|
www.cifs.org or the pub/samba/specs/ directory on your favorite
|
|
samba.org mirror site.
|
|
The SMB patches were written by Andrew Tridgell
|
|
(tridge@samba.org).
|
|
.HD
|
|
NFS Requests and Replies
|
|
.LP
|
|
Sun NFS (Network File System) requests and replies are printed as:
|
|
.RS
|
|
.nf
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
\fIsrc.xid > dst.nfs: len op args\fP
|
|
\fIsrc.nfs > dst.xid: reply stat len op results\fP
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
\f(CW
|
|
sushi.6709 > wrl.nfs: 112 readlink fh 21,24/10.73165
|
|
wrl.nfs > sushi.6709: reply ok 40 readlink "../var"
|
|
sushi.201b > wrl.nfs:
|
|
144 lookup fh 9,74/4096.6878 "xcolors"
|
|
wrl.nfs > sushi.201b:
|
|
reply ok 128 lookup fh 9,74/4134.3150
|
|
\fR
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
.fi
|
|
.RE
|
|
In the first line, host \fIsushi\fP sends a transaction with id \fI6709\fP
|
|
to \fIwrl\fP (note that the number following the src host is a
|
|
transaction id, \fInot\fP the source port).
|
|
The request was 112 bytes,
|
|
excluding the UDP and IP headers.
|
|
The operation was a \fIreadlink\fP
|
|
(read symbolic link) on file handle (\fIfh\fP) 21,24/10.731657119.
|
|
(If one is lucky, as in this case, the file handle can be interpreted
|
|
as a major,minor device number pair, followed by the inode number and
|
|
generation number.)
|
|
\fIWrl\fP replies `ok' with the contents of the link.
|
|
.LP
|
|
In the third line, \fIsushi\fP asks \fIwrl\fP to lookup the name
|
|
`\fIxcolors\fP' in directory file 9,74/4096.6878.
|
|
Note that the data printed
|
|
depends on the operation type.
|
|
The format is intended to be self
|
|
explanatory if read in conjunction with
|
|
an NFS protocol spec.
|
|
.LP
|
|
If the \-v (verbose) flag is given, additional information is printed.
|
|
For example:
|
|
.RS
|
|
.nf
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
\f(CW
|
|
sushi.1372a > wrl.nfs:
|
|
148 read fh 21,11/12.195 8192 bytes @ 24576
|
|
wrl.nfs > sushi.1372a:
|
|
reply ok 1472 read REG 100664 ids 417/0 sz 29388
|
|
\fP
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
.fi
|
|
.RE
|
|
(\-v also prints the IP header TTL, ID, length, and fragmentation fields,
|
|
which have been omitted from this example.) In the first line,
|
|
\fIsushi\fP asks \fIwrl\fP to read 8192 bytes from file 21,11/12.195,
|
|
at byte offset 24576.
|
|
\fIWrl\fP replies `ok'; the packet shown on the
|
|
second line is the first fragment of the reply, and hence is only 1472
|
|
bytes long (the other bytes will follow in subsequent fragments, but
|
|
these fragments do not have NFS or even UDP headers and so might not be
|
|
printed, depending on the filter expression used).
|
|
Because the \-v flag
|
|
is given, some of the file attributes (which are returned in addition
|
|
to the file data) are printed: the file type (``REG'', for regular file),
|
|
the file mode (in octal), the uid and gid, and the file size.
|
|
.LP
|
|
If the \-v flag is given more than once, even more details are printed.
|
|
.LP
|
|
Note that NFS requests are very large and much of the detail won't be printed
|
|
unless \fIsnaplen\fP is increased.
|
|
Try using `\fB\-s 192\fP' to watch
|
|
NFS traffic.
|
|
.LP
|
|
NFS reply packets do not explicitly identify the RPC operation.
|
|
Instead,
|
|
\fItcpdump\fP keeps track of ``recent'' requests, and matches them to the
|
|
replies using the transaction ID.
|
|
If a reply does not closely follow the
|
|
corresponding request, it might not be parsable.
|
|
.HD
|
|
AFS Requests and Replies
|
|
.LP
|
|
Transarc AFS (Andrew File System) requests and replies are printed
|
|
as:
|
|
.HD
|
|
.RS
|
|
.nf
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
\fIsrc.sport > dst.dport: rx packet-type\fP
|
|
\fIsrc.sport > dst.dport: rx packet-type service call call-name args\fP
|
|
\fIsrc.sport > dst.dport: rx packet-type service reply call-name args\fP
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
\f(CW
|
|
elvis.7001 > pike.afsfs:
|
|
rx data fs call rename old fid 536876964/1/1 ".newsrc.new"
|
|
new fid 536876964/1/1 ".newsrc"
|
|
pike.afsfs > elvis.7001: rx data fs reply rename
|
|
\fR
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
.fi
|
|
.RE
|
|
In the first line, host elvis sends a RX packet to pike.
|
|
This was
|
|
a RX data packet to the fs (fileserver) service, and is the start of
|
|
an RPC call.
|
|
The RPC call was a rename, with the old directory file id
|
|
of 536876964/1/1 and an old filename of `.newsrc.new', and a new directory
|
|
file id of 536876964/1/1 and a new filename of `.newsrc'.
|
|
The host pike
|
|
responds with a RPC reply to the rename call (which was successful, because
|
|
it was a data packet and not an abort packet).
|
|
.LP
|
|
In general, all AFS RPCs are decoded at least by RPC call name.
|
|
Most
|
|
AFS RPCs have at least some of the arguments decoded (generally only
|
|
the `interesting' arguments, for some definition of interesting).
|
|
.LP
|
|
The format is intended to be self-describing, but it will probably
|
|
not be useful to people who are not familiar with the workings of
|
|
AFS and RX.
|
|
.LP
|
|
If the -v (verbose) flag is given twice, acknowledgement packets and
|
|
additional header information is printed, such as the the RX call ID,
|
|
call number, sequence number, serial number, and the RX packet flags.
|
|
.LP
|
|
If the -v flag is given twice, additional information is printed,
|
|
such as the the RX call ID, serial number, and the RX packet flags.
|
|
The MTU negotiation information is also printed from RX ack packets.
|
|
.LP
|
|
If the -v flag is given three times, the security index and service id
|
|
are printed.
|
|
.LP
|
|
Error codes are printed for abort packets, with the exception of Ubik
|
|
beacon packets (because abort packets are used to signify a yes vote
|
|
for the Ubik protocol).
|
|
.LP
|
|
Note that AFS requests are very large and many of the arguments won't
|
|
be printed unless \fIsnaplen\fP is increased.
|
|
Try using `\fB-s 256\fP'
|
|
to watch AFS traffic.
|
|
.LP
|
|
AFS reply packets do not explicitly identify the RPC operation.
|
|
Instead,
|
|
\fItcpdump\fP keeps track of ``recent'' requests, and matches them to the
|
|
replies using the call number and service ID.
|
|
If a reply does not closely
|
|
follow the
|
|
corresponding request, it might not be parsable.
|
|
|
|
.HD
|
|
KIP AppleTalk (DDP in UDP)
|
|
.LP
|
|
AppleTalk DDP packets encapsulated in UDP datagrams are de-encapsulated
|
|
and dumped as DDP packets (i.e., all the UDP header information is
|
|
discarded).
|
|
The file
|
|
.I /etc/atalk.names
|
|
is used to translate AppleTalk net and node numbers to names.
|
|
Lines in this file have the form
|
|
.RS
|
|
.nf
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
\fInumber name\fP
|
|
|
|
\f(CW1.254 ether
|
|
16.1 icsd-net
|
|
1.254.110 ace\fR
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
.fi
|
|
.RE
|
|
The first two lines give the names of AppleTalk networks.
|
|
The third
|
|
line gives the name of a particular host (a host is distinguished
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from a net by the 3rd octet in the number \-
|
|
a net number \fImust\fP have two octets and a host number \fImust\fP
|
|
have three octets.) The number and name should be separated by
|
|
whitespace (blanks or tabs).
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The
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.I /etc/atalk.names
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file may contain blank lines or comment lines (lines starting with
|
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a `#').
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.LP
|
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AppleTalk addresses are printed in the form
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.RS
|
|
.nf
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
\fInet.host.port\fP
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|
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\f(CW144.1.209.2 > icsd-net.112.220
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office.2 > icsd-net.112.220
|
|
jssmag.149.235 > icsd-net.2\fR
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|
.sp .5
|
|
.fi
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|
.RE
|
|
(If the
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|
.I /etc/atalk.names
|
|
doesn't exist or doesn't contain an entry for some AppleTalk
|
|
host/net number, addresses are printed in numeric form.)
|
|
In the first example, NBP (DDP port 2) on net 144.1 node 209
|
|
is sending to whatever is listening on port 220 of net icsd node 112.
|
|
The second line is the same except the full name of the source node
|
|
is known (`office').
|
|
The third line is a send from port 235 on
|
|
net jssmag node 149 to broadcast on the icsd-net NBP port (note that
|
|
the broadcast address (255) is indicated by a net name with no host
|
|
number \- for this reason it's a good idea to keep node names and
|
|
net names distinct in /etc/atalk.names).
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|
.LP
|
|
NBP (name binding protocol) and ATP (AppleTalk transaction protocol)
|
|
packets have their contents interpreted.
|
|
Other protocols just dump
|
|
the protocol name (or number if no name is registered for the
|
|
protocol) and packet size.
|
|
|
|
\fBNBP packets\fP are formatted like the following examples:
|
|
.RS
|
|
.nf
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
\s-2\f(CWicsd-net.112.220 > jssmag.2: nbp-lkup 190: "=:LaserWriter@*"
|
|
jssmag.209.2 > icsd-net.112.220: nbp-reply 190: "RM1140:LaserWriter@*" 250
|
|
techpit.2 > icsd-net.112.220: nbp-reply 190: "techpit:LaserWriter@*" 186\fR\s+2
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
.fi
|
|
.RE
|
|
The first line is a name lookup request for laserwriters sent by net icsd host
|
|
112 and broadcast on net jssmag.
|
|
The nbp id for the lookup is 190.
|
|
The second line shows a reply for this request (note that it has the
|
|
same id) from host jssmag.209 saying that it has a laserwriter
|
|
resource named "RM1140" registered on port 250.
|
|
The third line is
|
|
another reply to the same request saying host techpit has laserwriter
|
|
"techpit" registered on port 186.
|
|
|
|
\fBATP packet\fP formatting is demonstrated by the following example:
|
|
.RS
|
|
.nf
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
\s-2\f(CWjssmag.209.165 > helios.132: atp-req 12266<0-7> 0xae030001
|
|
helios.132 > jssmag.209.165: atp-resp 12266:0 (512) 0xae040000
|
|
helios.132 > jssmag.209.165: atp-resp 12266:1 (512) 0xae040000
|
|
helios.132 > jssmag.209.165: atp-resp 12266:2 (512) 0xae040000
|
|
helios.132 > jssmag.209.165: atp-resp 12266:3 (512) 0xae040000
|
|
helios.132 > jssmag.209.165: atp-resp 12266:4 (512) 0xae040000
|
|
helios.132 > jssmag.209.165: atp-resp 12266:5 (512) 0xae040000
|
|
helios.132 > jssmag.209.165: atp-resp 12266:6 (512) 0xae040000
|
|
helios.132 > jssmag.209.165: atp-resp*12266:7 (512) 0xae040000
|
|
jssmag.209.165 > helios.132: atp-req 12266<3,5> 0xae030001
|
|
helios.132 > jssmag.209.165: atp-resp 12266:3 (512) 0xae040000
|
|
helios.132 > jssmag.209.165: atp-resp 12266:5 (512) 0xae040000
|
|
jssmag.209.165 > helios.132: atp-rel 12266<0-7> 0xae030001
|
|
jssmag.209.133 > helios.132: atp-req* 12267<0-7> 0xae030002\fR\s+2
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
.fi
|
|
.RE
|
|
Jssmag.209 initiates transaction id 12266 with host helios by requesting
|
|
up to 8 packets (the `<0-7>').
|
|
The hex number at the end of the line
|
|
is the value of the `userdata' field in the request.
|
|
.LP
|
|
Helios responds with 8 512-byte packets.
|
|
The `:digit' following the
|
|
transaction id gives the packet sequence number in the transaction
|
|
and the number in parens is the amount of data in the packet,
|
|
excluding the atp header.
|
|
The `*' on packet 7 indicates that the
|
|
EOM bit was set.
|
|
.LP
|
|
Jssmag.209 then requests that packets 3 & 5 be retransmitted.
|
|
Helios
|
|
resends them then jssmag.209 releases the transaction.
|
|
Finally,
|
|
jssmag.209 initiates the next request.
|
|
The `*' on the request
|
|
indicates that XO (`exactly once') was \fInot\fP set.
|
|
|
|
.HD
|
|
IP Fragmentation
|
|
.LP
|
|
Fragmented Internet datagrams are printed as
|
|
.RS
|
|
.nf
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
\fB(frag \fIid\fB:\fIsize\fB@\fIoffset\fB+)\fR
|
|
\fB(frag \fIid\fB:\fIsize\fB@\fIoffset\fB)\fR
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
.fi
|
|
.RE
|
|
(The first form indicates there are more fragments.
|
|
The second
|
|
indicates this is the last fragment.)
|
|
.LP
|
|
\fIId\fP is the fragment id.
|
|
\fISize\fP is the fragment
|
|
size (in bytes) excluding the IP header.
|
|
\fIOffset\fP is this
|
|
fragment's offset (in bytes) in the original datagram.
|
|
.LP
|
|
The fragment information is output for each fragment.
|
|
The first
|
|
fragment contains the higher level protocol header and the frag
|
|
info is printed after the protocol info.
|
|
Fragments
|
|
after the first contain no higher level protocol header and the
|
|
frag info is printed after the source and destination addresses.
|
|
For example, here is part of an ftp from arizona.edu to lbl-rtsg.arpa
|
|
over a CSNET connection that doesn't appear to handle 576 byte datagrams:
|
|
.RS
|
|
.nf
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
\s-2\f(CWarizona.ftp-data > rtsg.1170: . 1024:1332(308) ack 1 win 4096 (frag 595a:328@0+)
|
|
arizona > rtsg: (frag 595a:204@328)
|
|
rtsg.1170 > arizona.ftp-data: . ack 1536 win 2560\fP\s+2
|
|
.sp .5
|
|
.fi
|
|
.RE
|
|
There are a couple of things to note here: First, addresses in the
|
|
2nd line don't include port numbers.
|
|
This is because the TCP
|
|
protocol information is all in the first fragment and we have no idea
|
|
what the port or sequence numbers are when we print the later fragments.
|
|
Second, the tcp sequence information in the first line is printed as if there
|
|
were 308 bytes of user data when, in fact, there are 512 bytes (308 in
|
|
the first frag and 204 in the second).
|
|
If you are looking for holes
|
|
in the sequence space or trying to match up acks
|
|
with packets, this can fool you.
|
|
.LP
|
|
A packet with the IP \fIdon't fragment\fP flag is marked with a
|
|
trailing \fB(DF)\fP.
|
|
.HD
|
|
Timestamps
|
|
.LP
|
|
By default, all output lines are preceded by a timestamp.
|
|
The timestamp
|
|
is the current clock time in the form
|
|
.RS
|
|
.nf
|
|
\fIhh:mm:ss.frac\fP
|
|
.fi
|
|
.RE
|
|
and is as accurate as the kernel's clock.
|
|
The timestamp reflects the time the kernel first saw the packet.
|
|
No attempt
|
|
is made to account for the time lag between when the
|
|
Ethernet interface removed the packet from the wire and when the kernel
|
|
serviced the `new packet' interrupt.
|
|
.SH "SEE ALSO"
|
|
stty(1), pcap(3PCAP), bpf(4), nit(4P), pcap-savefile(@MAN_FILE_FORMATS@),
|
|
pcap-filter(@MAN_MISC_INFO@), pcap-tstamp-type(@MAN_MISC_INFO@)
|
|
.SH AUTHORS
|
|
The original authors are:
|
|
.LP
|
|
Van Jacobson,
|
|
Craig Leres and
|
|
Steven McCanne, all of the
|
|
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
|
|
.LP
|
|
It is currently being maintained by tcpdump.org.
|
|
.LP
|
|
The current version is available via http:
|
|
.LP
|
|
.RS
|
|
.I http://www.tcpdump.org/
|
|
.RE
|
|
.LP
|
|
The original distribution is available via anonymous ftp:
|
|
.LP
|
|
.RS
|
|
.I ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/tcpdump.tar.Z
|
|
.RE
|
|
.LP
|
|
IPv6/IPsec support is added by WIDE/KAME project.
|
|
This program uses Eric Young's SSLeay library, under specific configurations.
|
|
.SH BUGS
|
|
Please send problems, bugs, questions, desirable enhancements, patches
|
|
etc. to:
|
|
.LP
|
|
.RS
|
|
tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org
|
|
.RE
|
|
.LP
|
|
NIT doesn't let you watch your own outbound traffic, BPF will.
|
|
We recommend that you use the latter.
|
|
.LP
|
|
On Linux systems with 2.0[.x] kernels:
|
|
.IP
|
|
packets on the loopback device will be seen twice;
|
|
.IP
|
|
packet filtering cannot be done in the kernel, so that all packets must
|
|
be copied from the kernel in order to be filtered in user mode;
|
|
.IP
|
|
all of a packet, not just the part that's within the snapshot length,
|
|
will be copied from the kernel (the 2.0[.x] packet capture mechanism, if
|
|
asked to copy only part of a packet to userland, will not report the
|
|
true length of the packet; this would cause most IP packets to get an
|
|
error from
|
|
.BR tcpdump );
|
|
.IP
|
|
capturing on some PPP devices won't work correctly.
|
|
.LP
|
|
We recommend that you upgrade to a 2.2 or later kernel.
|
|
.LP
|
|
Some attempt should be made to reassemble IP fragments or, at least
|
|
to compute the right length for the higher level protocol.
|
|
.LP
|
|
Name server inverse queries are not dumped correctly: the (empty)
|
|
question section is printed rather than real query in the answer
|
|
section.
|
|
Some believe that inverse queries are themselves a bug and
|
|
prefer to fix the program generating them rather than \fItcpdump\fP.
|
|
.LP
|
|
A packet trace that crosses a daylight savings time change will give
|
|
skewed time stamps (the time change is ignored).
|
|
.LP
|
|
Filter expressions on fields other than those in Token Ring headers will
|
|
not correctly handle source-routed Token Ring packets.
|
|
.LP
|
|
Filter expressions on fields other than those in 802.11 headers will not
|
|
correctly handle 802.11 data packets with both To DS and From DS set.
|
|
.LP
|
|
.BR "ip6 proto"
|
|
should chase header chain, but at this moment it does not.
|
|
.BR "ip6 protochain"
|
|
is supplied for this behavior.
|
|
.LP
|
|
Arithmetic expression against transport layer headers, like \fBtcp[0]\fP,
|
|
does not work against IPv6 packets.
|
|
It only looks at IPv4 packets.
|