Most of you probably have heard of Wireshark, a very popular and capable network protocol analyzer. What you may not know is that there exists a console version of Wireshark called tshark. The two main advantages of tshark are that it can be used in scripts and on a remote computer through an SSH connection. Its main disadvantage is that it does not have a GUI, which can be really handy when you have to search lots of network data.
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