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tcpdump - Tool for network monitoring and data acquisition

Tcpdump allows you to dump the traffic on a network. It can be used to print out the headers of packets on a network interface that matches a given expression. You can use this tool to track down network problems, to detect "ping attacks" or to monitor the network activities.

Obtaining

Web page	http://www.tcpdump.org/
Source tarball	http://www.tcpdump.org/release/tcpdump-3.7.2.tar.gz
Source information	http://www.tcpdump.org/release/
Latest version	http://www.tcpdump.org/daily/tcpdump-current.tar.gz

Version 3.7.2 (stable) released on 2003-02-27

Licensed under a 3-clause BSD-style license.

This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

User manpage available in HTML format from http://www.tcpdump.org/tcpdump_man.html

Support contacts

Help List	<tcpdump-workers@tcpdump.org> <tcpdump-workers-request@tcpdump.org> Body: subscribe
Developer List	<tcpdump-workers@tcpdump.org> <tcpdump-workers-request@tcpdump.org> Body: subscribe

Project contacts

Maintainers	The Tcpdump Group
Developers	Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com> Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se> Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net> Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> Torsten Landschoff <t.landschoff@gmx.net> Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca> Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Contributors	See the CREDITS file in the distribution for a complete list
Sponsors	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC-Berkeley

Related information

Source repository	:pserver:tcpdump@cvs.tcpdump.org:/tcpdump/master login password: anoncvs co tcpdump http://cvs.tcpdump.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/
Interfaces	command line
Source languages	C
Use requirements	libpcap
Related programs	SNORT, Etherape, Ethereal, Tcpreplay

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2003-08-27
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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