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+.\" @(#) $Header: /tcpdump/master/tcpdump/Attic/tcpdump.1,v 1.163 2004-06-12 08:51:23 guy Exp $ (LBL)
+.\"
+.\" $NetBSD: tcpdump.8,v 1.9 2003/03/31 00:18:17 perry Exp $
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-.TH TCPDUMP 1 "21 December 2002"
+.TH TCPDUMP 1 "22 March 2004"
.SH NAME
tcpdump \- dump traffic on a network
.SH SYNOPSIS
.na
.B tcpdump
[
-.B \-aAdDeflLnNOpqRStuUvxX
+.B \-AdDeflLnNOpqRStuUvxX
] [
.B \-c
.I count
.I module
]
[
-.B \-r
-.I file
+.B \-M
+.I secret
]
.br
.ti +8
[
+.B \-r
+.I file
+]
+[
.B \-s
.I snaplen
]
.br
.ti +8
[
+.B \-W
+.I filecount
+]
+.br
+.ti +8
+[
.B \-E
.I spi@ipaddr algo:secret,...
]
.B \-y
.I datalinktype
]
+[
+.B \-Z
+.I user
+]
.ti +8
[
.I expression
.I tcpdump
finishes capturing packets, it will report counts of:
.IP
+packets ``captured'' (this is the number of packets that
+.I tcpdump
+has received and processed);
+.IP
packets ``received by filter'' (the meaning of this depends on the OS on
which you're running
.IR tcpdump ,
and possibly on the way the OS was configured - if a filter was
specified on the command line, on some OSes it counts packets regardless
-of whether they were matched by the filter expression, and on other OSes
-it counts only packets that were matched by the filter expression and
-were processed by
+of whether they were matched by the filter expression and, even if they
+were matched by the filter expression, regardless of whether
+.I tcpdump
+has read and processed them yet, on other OSes it counts only packets that were
+matched by the filter expression regardless of whether
+.I tcpdump
+has read and processed them yet, and on other OSes it counts only
+packets that were matched by the filter expression and were processed by
.IR tcpdump );
.IP
packets ``dropped by kernel'' (this is the number of packets that were
is running, if the OS reports that information to applications; if not,
it will be reported as 0).
.LP
-On platforms that support the SIGINFO signal, such as most BSDs, it will
-report those counts when it receives a SIGINFO signal (generated, for
-example, by typing your ``status'' character, typically control-T) and
-will continue capturing packets.
+On platforms that support the SIGINFO signal, such as most BSDs
+(including Mac OS X) and Digital/Tru64 UNIX, it will report those counts
+when it receives a SIGINFO signal (generated, for example, by typing
+your ``status'' character, typically control-T, although on some
+platforms, such as Mac OS X, the ``status'' character is not set by
+default, so you must set it with
+.BR stty (1)
+in order to use it) and will continue capturing packets.
.LP
Reading packets from a network interface may require that you have
special privileges:
.B Under Linux:
You must be root or
.I tcpdump
-must be installed setuid to root.
+must be installed setuid to root (unless your distribution has a kernel
+that supports capability bits such as CAP_NET_RAW and code to allow
+those capability bits to be given to particular accounts and to cause
+those bits to be set on a user's initial processes when they log in, in
+which case you must have CAP_NET_RAW in order to capture and
+CAP_NET_ADMIN to enumerate network devices with, for example, the
+.B \-D
+flag).
.TP
-.B Under Ultrix and Digital UNIX/Tru64 UNIX:
+.B Under ULTRIX and Digital UNIX/Tru64 UNIX:
Any user may capture network traffic with
.IR tcpdump .
However, no user (not even the super-user) can capture in promiscuous
promiscuous-mode or copy-all-mode operation, or both modes of
operation, be enabled on that interface.
.TP
-.B Under BSD:
+.B Under BSD (this includes Mac OS X):
You must have read access to
.IR /dev/bpf* .
+On BSDs with a devfs (this includes Mac OS X), this might involve more
+than just having somebody with super-user access setting the ownership
+or permissions on the BPF devices - it might involve configuring devfs
+to set the ownership or permissions every time the system is booted,
+if the system even supports that; if it doesn't support that, you might
+have to find some other way to make that happen at boot time.
.LP
Reading a saved packet file doesn't require special privileges.
.SH OPTIONS
Print each packet (minus its link level header) in ASCII. Handy for
capturing web pages.
.TP
-.B \-a
-Attempt to convert network and broadcast addresses to names.
-.TP
.B \-c
Exit after receiving \fIcount\fP packets.
.TP
savefile and open a new one. Savefiles after the first savefile will
have the name specified with the
.B \-w
-flag, with a number after it, starting at 2 and continuing upward.
+flag, with a number after it, starting at 1 and continuing upward.
The units of \fIfile_size\fP are millions of bytes (1,000,000 bytes,
not 1,048,576 bytes).
.TP
This option
can be used several times to load several MIB modules into \fItcpdump\fP.
.TP
+.B \-M
+Use \fIsecret\fP as a shared secret for validating the digests found in
+TCP segments with the TCP-MD5 option (RFC 2385), if present.
+.TP
.B \-n
Don't convert addresses (i.e., host addresses, port numbers, etc.) to names.
.TP
Force packets selected by "\fIexpression\fP" to be interpreted the
specified \fItype\fR.
Currently known types are
+\fBaodv\fR (Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector protocol),
\fBcnfp\fR (Cisco NetFlow protocol),
\fBrpc\fR (Remote Procedure Call),
\fBrtp\fR (Real-Time Applications protocol),
\fBrtcp\fR (Real-Time Applications control protocol),
\fBsnmp\fR (Simple Network Management Protocol),
+\fBtftp\fR (Trivial File Transfer Protocol),
\fBvat\fR (Visual Audio Tool),
and
\fBwb\fR (distributed White Board).
function.
.TP
.B \-v
-(Slightly more) verbose output.
+When parsing and printing, produce (slightly more) verbose output.
For example, the time to live,
identification, total length and options in an IP packet are printed.
Also enables additional packet integrity checks such as verifying the
IP and ICMP header checksum.
+.IP
+When writing to a file with the
+.B \-w
+option, report, every 10 seconds, the number of packets captured.
.TP
.B \-vv
Even more verbose output.
They can later be printed with the \-r option.
Standard output is used if \fIfile\fR is ``-''.
.TP
+.B \-W
+Used in conjunction with the
+.I \-C
+option, this will limit the number
+of files created to the specified number, and begin overwriting files
+from the beginning, thus creating a 'rotating' buffer.
+In addition, it will name
+the files with enough leading 0s to support the maximum number of
+files, allowing them to sort correctly.
+.TP
.B \-x
Print each packet (minus its link level header) in hex.
The smaller of the entire packet or
.TP
.B \-y
Set the data link type to use while capturing packets to \fIdatalinktype\fP.
+.TP
+.B \-Z
+Drops privileges (if root) and changes user ID to
+.I user
+and the group ID to the primary group of
+.IR user .
+.IP
+This behavior can also be enabled by default at compile time.
.IP "\fI expression\fP"
.RS
selects which packets will be dumped.
.TP
\fIatalk\fP
\fItcpdump\fR checks for a SNAP-format packet with an OUI of 0x080007
-and the Appletalk etype.
+and the AppleTalk etype.
.RE
.IP
In the case of Ethernet, \fItcpdump\fR checks the Ethernet type field
for most of those protocols. The exceptions are:
.RS
.TP
-\fBiso\fP, \fBsap\fP, and \fBnetbeui\fP
+\fBiso\fP, \fBstp\fP, and \fBnetbeui\fP
\fItcpdump\fR checks for an 802.3 frame and then checks the LLC header as
it does for FDDI, Token Ring, and 802.11;
.TP
\fBatalk\fP
-\fItcpdump\fR checks both for the Appletalk etype in an Ethernet frame and
+\fItcpdump\fR checks both for the AppleTalk etype in an Ethernet frame and
for a SNAP-format packet as it does for FDDI, Token Ring, and 802.11;
.TP
\fBaarp\fP
-\fItcpdump\fR checks for the Appletalk ARP etype in either an Ethernet
+\fItcpdump\fR checks for the AppleTalk ARP etype in either an Ethernet
frame or an 802.2 SNAP frame with an OUI of 0x000000;
.TP
\fBipx\fP
.IR host ,
which may be an address of the form ``10.123'', or a DECNET host
name.
-[DECNET host name support is only available on Ultrix systems
+[DECNET host name support is only available on ULTRIX systems
that are configured to run DECNET.]
.IP "\fBdecnet dst \fIhost\fR"
True if the DECNET destination address is
.B memory
(applies only to packets logged by OpenBSD's
.BR pf (4)).
+.IP "\fBrset \fIname\fR"
+True if the packet was logged as matching the specified PF ruleset
+name of an anchored ruleset (applies only to packets logged by
+.BR pf (4)).
+.IP "\fBruleset \fIname\fR"
+Synonomous with the
+.B rset
+modifier.
+.IP "\fBsrnr \fInum\fR"
+True if the packet was logged as matching the specified PF rule number
+of an anchored ruleset (applies only to packets logged by
+.BR pf (4)).
+.IP "\fBsubrulenum \fInum\fR"
+Synonomous with the
+.B srnr
+modifier.
.IP "\fBaction \fIact\fR"
True if PF took the specified action when the packet was logged. Known actions
are:
and
.B block
(applies only to packets logged by OpenBSD's
-.BR pf(4)).
+.BR pf (4)).
.IP "\fBip\fR, \fBip6\fR, \fBarp\fR, \fBrarp\fR, \fBatalk\fR, \fBaarp\fR, \fBdecnet\fR, \fBiso\fR, \fBstp\fR, \fBipx\fR, \fInetbeui\fP"
Abbreviations for:
.in +.5i
on a meta signaling circuit and is a Q.2931 Setup, Call Proceeding, Connect,
Release, or Release Done message.
.IP "\fIexpr relop expr\fR"
-True if the relation holds, where \fIrelop\fR is one of >, <, >=, <=, =, !=,
-and \fIexpr\fR is an arithmetic expression composed of integer constants
-(expressed in standard C syntax), the normal binary operators
-[+, -, *, /, &, |], a length operator, and special packet data accessors.
+True if the relation holds, where \fIrelop\fR is one of >, <, >=, <=, =,
+!=, and \fIexpr\fR is an arithmetic expression composed of integer
+constants (expressed in standard C syntax), the normal binary operators
+[+, -, *, /, &, |, <<, >>], a length operator, and special packet data
+accessors.
To access
data inside the packet, use the following syntax:
.in +.5i
\fISrc\fP and \fIdst\fP are the source and destination IP
addresses and ports.
\fIFlags\fP are some combination of S (SYN),
-F (FIN), P (PUSH) or R (RST) or a single `.' (no flags).
+F (FIN), P (PUSH), R (RST), W (ECN CWR) or E (ECN-Echo), or a single
+`.' (no flags).
\fIData-seqno\fP describes the portion of sequence space covered
by the data in this packet (see example below).
\fIAck\fP is sequence number of the next data expected the other
If you are decoding SMB sessions containing unicode strings then you
may wish to set the environment variable USE_UNICODE to 1.
A patch to
-auto-detect unicode srings would be welcome.
+auto-detect unicode strings would be welcome.
For information on SMB packet formats and what all te fields mean see
-www.cifs.org or the pub/samba/specs/ directory on your favourite
+www.cifs.org or the pub/samba/specs/ directory on your favorite
samba.org mirror site.
The SMB patches were written by Andrew Tridgell
corresponding request, it might not be parsable.
.HD
-KIP Appletalk (DDP in UDP)
+KIP AppleTalk (DDP in UDP)
.LP
-Appletalk DDP packets encapsulated in UDP datagrams are de-encapsulated
+AppleTalk DDP packets encapsulated in UDP datagrams are de-encapsulated
and dumped as DDP packets (i.e., all the UDP header information is
discarded).
The file
.I /etc/atalk.names
-is used to translate appletalk net and node numbers to names.
+is used to translate AppleTalk net and node numbers to names.
Lines in this file have the form
.RS
.nf
.sp .5
.fi
.RE
-The first two lines give the names of appletalk networks.
+The first two lines give the names of AppleTalk networks.
The third
line gives the name of a particular host (a host is distinguished
from a net by the 3rd octet in the number \-
file may contain blank lines or comment lines (lines starting with
a `#').
.LP
-Appletalk addresses are printed in the form
+AppleTalk addresses are printed in the form
.RS
.nf
.sp .5
.RE
(If the
.I /etc/atalk.names
-doesn't exist or doesn't contain an entry for some appletalk
+doesn't exist or doesn't contain an entry for some AppleTalk
host/net number, addresses are printed in numeric form.)
In the first example, NBP (DDP port 2) on net 144.1 node 209
is sending to whatever is listening on port 220 of net icsd node 112.
number \- for this reason it's a good idea to keep node names and
net names distinct in /etc/atalk.names).
.LP
-NBP (name binding protocol) and ATP (Appletalk transaction protocol)
+NBP (name binding protocol) and ATP (AppleTalk transaction protocol)
packets have their contents interpreted.
Other protocols just dump
the protocol name (or number if no name is registered for the
ethernet interface removed the packet from the wire and when the kernel
serviced the `new packet' interrupt.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
-traffic(1C), nit(4P), bpf(4), pcap(3)
+stty(1), pcap(3), bpf(4), nit(4P), pfconfig(8)
.SH AUTHORS
The original authors are:
.LP
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