bash-2.05b$ man tcpdump | head -27 TCPDUMP(8) TCPDUMP(8) NAME tcpdump - dump traffic on a network SYNOPSIS tcpdump [ -aAdeflLnNOpqRStuvxX ] [ -D datalinktype ] [ -c count ] [ -C file_size ] [ -F file ] [ -i interface ] [ -m module ] [ -r file ] [ -s snaplen ] [ -T type ] [ -w file ] [ -E algo:secret ] [ expression ] DESCRIPTION Tcpdump prints out the headers of packets on a network interface that match the boolean expression. It can also be run with the -w flag, which causes it to save the packet data to a file for later analysis, and/or with the -b flag, which causes it to read from a saved packet file rather than to read packets from a network interface. In all cases, only packets that match expression will be pro- cessed by tcpdump. bash-2.05b$ tcpdump -? tcpdump version 3.7.1 libpcap version 0.4 Usage: tcpdump [-aAdeflLnNOpqRStuvxX] [ -D datalinktype ] [ -c count ] [ -C file_size ] [ -F file ] [ -i interface ] [ -r file ] [ -s snaplen ] [ -T type ] [ -w file ] [ -E algo:secret ] [ expression ] bash-2.05b$