tcpdump command

[David G. Miller]

"Kaushal Shriyan" <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have to capture network traffic between an appliance and content server
> using tcpdump command and then dump to a file and read and decode it using
> wireshark
>
> How do i proceed
>
> I have used tcpdump -i eth0 -s 1500 -w dump src host 192.168.0.1 and dst
> host www.example.com
>
> when i read the dump capture file using wireshark i could only see packets
> being sent from src host to destination host, I could not see any packets
> being sent from destination host to src host.
>
> Please let me know what I am doing wrong.
Try -s0 and you specified "src host" and "dest host" so you only see 
packets *from* the source *to* the destination.  Try leaving off "src" 
and "dest".  You should then only see all packets between the two 
systems since only those packets will have both hosts.

Cheers,
Dave

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