tcpdump
tcpdump is a common computer network debugging tool that runs under the
command line.
It allows the user to intercept and display TCP/IP and other packets
being transmitted or received over a network to which the computer is
attached.
This program allows you to dump the traffic on a network.
It can be used to print out the headers of packets on a network
interface, filter packets that match a certain expression. You can use
this tool to track down network problems, to detect "ping attacks" or
to monitor network activities.
Features include:
- Able to examine
- IPv4
- ICMPv4
- IPv6
- ICMPv6
- UDP
- TCP
- SNMP
- AFS BGP
- RIP
- PIM
- DVMRP
- IGMP
- SMB
- OSPF
- NFS
- and many other packet types
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