Tools to inspect an ethernet packet travels through host's interfaces?

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I am debugging a local ethernet connection on a Linux machine. I want to inspect the ethernet packets as they travel. in and out current machines' interfaces. I do not have a GUI on the machine. Is there tool to do this?

Wesley · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-05T03:13:41.350

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As luck would have it, there are indeed tools to do such a thing:

edited Apr 05 '12 at 03:13

answered Apr 05 '12 at 03:06

Wesley

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I am using Linux over a command line, WireShark as a GUI tool doesn't seem to meet the requirement. – steveyang Apr 05 '12 at 03:10
@yangchenyun updated my post. Wireshark will still work and so will tcpdump. – Wesley Apr 05 '12 at 03:14
...and you can still run it on a remote GUI display, and you can import tcpdump files.... – symcbean Apr 05 '12 at 09:02

Tools to inspect an ethernet packet travels through host's interfaces?

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