As a system administrator, small command-line utilities that require little setup and can be used for troubleshooting increase in value--especially when you are called out at 2:00am for a system ...

Packet capture is one of the most fundamental and powerful ways to do network analysis. You can learn virtually anything about what is going on within a network by intercepting and examining the raw ...

Think you know what's happening on your network? Pull out tcpdump and you might be surprised how much it can tell you. In some ways, the tcpdump command may seem like a pretty basic tool for grabbing ...

For a class project I had to code an TCP/UDP echo client and server and then capture the resulting packets using TCPDUMP. Here is the output for sending 1000 characters (1000 bytes) from a file from ...

Tcpdump may not have a slick frontend like other packet analyzers such as Wireshark and Ettercap, but this command line tool makes up for its lack of fancy graphics with power and flexibility. In this ...