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tcpdump For Dummies

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 26, 2008

“Here are few more useful options. Sometimes amount of traffic
that goes in and out of your computer is very high, while all you
want to see is just few packets. Often you want to see who sends
you the traffic, but when you try to capture anything with tcpdump
it dumps so many packets that you cannot understand anything. This
is the case when -c command line switch becomes handy.”

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Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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