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Mar 262010
 

Packet sniffing with tcpdump

Answer:

To perform packet sniffing, it is easy with tcpdump

# tcpdump -i eth0 -w dump.cap -s 0

After you terminated the tcpdump, you can use tool such as Wireshark to analyse the dump.cap.

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