Network Traffic Analysis Using tcpdump Introduction to tcpdump
The objectives of this course are to introduce you to the fundamentals and benefits of using tcpdump
as a tool to analyze your network traffic. We’ll start with introducing concepts and output of
tcpdump. One of the most important aspects of using tcpdump is being able to write tcpdump filters
to look for specific traffic. Filter writing is fairly basic unless you want to examine fields in an IP
datagram that don’t fall on byte boundaries. So, that is why an entire section is devoted to the art of
writing filters....
