How to Install tcpdump in Ubuntu 18.04



Install tcpdump by entering the following commands in the terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install tcpdump

Description:

command-line network traffic analyzer

This program allows you to dump the traffic on a network. tcpdump is able to examine IPv4, ICMPv4, IPv6, ICMPv6, UDP, TCP, SNMP, AFS BGP, RIP, PIM, DVMRP, IGMP, SMB, OSPF, NFS and many other packet types. . It can be used to print out the headers of packets on a network interface, filter packets that match a certain expression. You can use this tool to track down network problems, to detect attacks or to monitor network activities.

Homepage: http://www.tcpdump.org/

Version: 4.9.2-3

Section: net