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Package: tcpdump (3.9.8-4)

A powerful tool for network monitoring and data acquisition

This program allows you to dump the traffic on a network. tcpdump is able to examine IPv4, ICMPv4, IPv6, ICMPv6, UDP, TCP, SNMP, AFS BGP, RIP, PIM, DVMRP, IGMP, SMB, OSPF, NFS and many other packet types.

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.

Tags: System Administration: Monitoring, User Interface: Command Line, Networking: Scanning, Network Protocol: IP, IPv6, SSL/TLS, Role: Program, Scope: Utility, Purpose: Monitoring

Other Packages Related to tcpdump

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  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.7-1)
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
  • dep: libpcap0.8 (>= 0.9.3-1)
    system interface for user-level packet capture
  • dep: libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8f-5)
    SSL shared libraries

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armel 316.4 kB688 kB [list of files]