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Monday, February 04, 2008

 

tcpdump usage is not strait sometimes

tcpdump is a nice CLI utility to log everything from available network interfaces. The only pitfall is by default it truncates all strings to 96 bytes. Here is a cut&paste line:

sudo tcpdump -s256 -Xi lo ...
sudo tcpdump -s256 -Xi lo dst port ...


-X is hex/ASCII form of presentation. 256 is a length of strings to print. lo interface name, eth0, eth1 ...

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