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Changing packet size in the capture file:
  
 
By default, when capturing packets into a file, it will save only 68 bytes of the data from each packet.  The -s command line switch tells tcpdump how many bytes for each packet to save. Specifying 0 as a packet’s snapshot length tells tcpdump to save whole packet.
 
By default, when capturing packets into a file, it will save only 68 bytes of the data from each packet.  The -s command line switch tells tcpdump how many bytes for each packet to save. Specifying 0 as a packet’s snapshot length tells tcpdump to save whole packet.

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capturing

Changing packet size in the capture file:

By default, when capturing packets into a file, it will save only 68 bytes of the data from each packet. The -s command line switch tells tcpdump how many bytes for each packet to save. Specifying 0 as a packet’s snapshot length tells tcpdump to save whole packet.

example: tcpdump -w file.cap -s 0


UNIX tcpdump 3.9.4(Freebsd, ipso)


Showing link level headers (MAC addresses)

 tcpdump -e -i ethxxx


filtering for specific sources and destinations

 tcpdump -nnei eth1-01 '((host 192.168.1.1 and host 172.16.0.1) or (host 10.0.0.1 and host 172.16.0.1))'


gentoo output file

default location /var/lib/tcpdump/