MD2 Packet Inspection: Packet captures with tcpdump

Question 1

tcpdump

Answer 1

Tcpdump is a popular network analyzer. It’s pre-installed on many Linux distributions and can be installed on most Unix-like operating systems, like macOS. You can easily capture and monitor network traffic such as TCP, IP, ICMP, and many more.

Tcpdump is a command line tool. This means that it does not have a graphical user interface.

Question 2

Let’s examine a simple tcpdump command used to capture packets

Answer 2

Revise word doc packet captures with tcp dump in course 6 module 2 folder (cyber security)