Quick and simple usage of tcpdump (packet sniffer)
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Tcpdump is a popular computer network debugging and security tool which allows the user to intercept and display TCP/IP packets being transmitted or received over a network to which the computer is attached. Tcpdump allows us to precisely see all the traffic and enables us to create statistical monitoring scripts.
At an ethernet segment, tcpdump operates by putting the network card into promiscuous mode in order to capture all the packets going through the wire. Using tcpdump we have a view on any TCP/UDP connection establishment and termination and we can measure the response time and the packet loss percentagesTo print