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Tech Short: Capturing packets on Checkpoint

I’ve recently found myself capturing network traffic to troubleshoot reported issues. To successfully capture packets the use of tcpdump is required.  And while you may be familiar with using this tool, the use is slightly different on Checkpoint devices. The devices in this reference is Checkpoint R77.30 and R80 devices. To capture the correct network […]

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dump packets with tcpdump

How many times did you forget the parameters.  I have, countless time. Lets see if my sharing here I will remember some of my favorite commands # tcpdump -nnXSs 0 ‘port 5060’ Command switches (what they are for) “-nn” plays nice by not looking up hostnames in DNS or service names. “-X” makes it print each packet in hex […]

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Capturing with tcpdump

Capturing with tcpdump There are occasions when you want to capture packets using tcpdump rather than wireshark, especially when you want to do a remote capture. Please note that the default tcpdump parameters result in a capture file where each packet is truncated, because most versions of tcpdump, will, by default, only capture the first […]

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Kismet – Fate or Luck (or both)

Kismet is an 802.11 layer 2 wireless network detector, sniffer and intrusion detection system (IDS). Kismet works with almost any wireless card which supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and can sniff 802.11a,g, and 802.11n traffic. Kismet Features: 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11a, 802.11n sniffing Standard PCAP file logging (Wireshark, Tcpdump, etc) Client/Server modular architecture Multi-card and channel […]