Wireshark/tcpdump Capture Filters

Tcpdump/ Wireshark Capture Filters

tcpdump -nnvi eth0 -s 200 -c 1000 host 172.18.5.4 and port 22 -w /var/tmp/test.pcap

 These filters specifies what packets to be capured:

 

 

Examples

Capture only traffic to or from IP address 172.18.5.4:

• host 172.18.5.4

Capture traffic to or from a range of IP addresses:

• net 192.168.0.0/24

or

• net 192.168.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0

Capture traffic from a range of IP addresses:

• src net 192.168.0.0/24

or

• src net 192.168.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0

Capture traffic to a range of IP addresses:

• dst net 192.168.0.0/24

or

• dst net 192.168.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0

Capture only DNS (port 53) traffic:

• port 53

Capture non-HTTP and non-SMTP traffic on your server (both are equivalent):

• host www.example.com and not (port 80 or port 25)
  host www.example.com and not port 80 and not port 25

Capture except all ARP and DNS traffic:

• port not 53 and not arp

Capture traffic within a range of ports

• (tcp[0:2] > 1500 and tcp[0:2] < 1550) or (tcp[2:2] > 1500 and tcp[2:2] < 1550)

or, with newer versions of libpcap (0.9.1 and later):

• tcp portrange 1501-1549

Capture only Ethernet type EAPOL:

• ether proto 0x888e

Reject ethernet frames towards the Link Layer Discovery Protocol Multicast group:

• not ether dst 01:80:c2:00:00:0e

Capture only IP traffic - the shortest filter, but sometimes very useful to get rid of lower layer protocols like ARP and STP:

• ip

Capture only unicast traffic - useful to get rid of noise on the network if you only want to see traffic to and from your machine, not, for example, broadcast and multicast announcements:

• not broadcast and not multicast

Capture IPv6 "all nodes" (router and neighbor advertisement) traffic. Can be used to find rogue RAs:

• dst host ff02::1

Capture HTTP GET requests. This looks for the bytes 'G', 'E', 'T', and ' ' (hex values 47, 45, 54, and 20) just after the TCP header. "tcp[12:1] & 0xf0) >> 2" figures out the TCP header length. From Jefferson Ogata via the tcpdump-workers mailing list.

• port 80 and tcp[((tcp[12:1] & 0xf0) >> 2):4] = 0x47455420

Full list can be found here:

http://www.tcpdump.org/manpages/pcap-filter.7.html

Wireshark Search/Display Filters

 

These filters are used to filter what is displayed from the captured packets.

Display Filter comparison operators

English	C-like	Description and example
eq	==	Equal. ip.src==10.0.0.5
ne	!=	Not equal. ip.src!=10.0.0.5
gt	>	Greater than. frame.len > 10
lt	<	Less than. frame.len < 128
ge	>=	Greater than or equal to. frame.len ge 0x100
le	<=	Less than or equal to. frame.len <= 0x20

Display Filter Logical Operations

English	C-like	Description and example
and	&&	Logical AND. ip.src==10.0.0.5 and tcp.flags.fin
or	||	Logical OR. ip.scr==10.0.0.5 or ip.src==192.1.1.1
xor	^^	Logical XOR. tr.dst[0:3] == 0.6.29 xor tr.src[0:3] == 0.6.29
not	!	Logical NOT. not llc
[…]		Substring Operator. Wireshark allows you to select subsequences of a sequence in rather elaborate ways. After a label you can place a pair of brackets [] containing a comma separated list of range specifiers. ---- eth.src[0:3] == 00:00:83 ---- The example above uses the n:m format to specify a single range. In this case n is the beginning offset and m is the length of the range being specified. ---- eth.src[1-2] == 00:83 ---- The example above uses the n-m format to specify a single range. In this case n is the beginning offset and m is the ending offset. ---- eth.src[:4] == 00:00:83:00 ---- The example above uses the :m format, which takes everything from the beginning of a sequence to offset m. It is equivalent to 0:m ---- eth.src[4:] == 20:20 ---- The example above uses the n: format, which takes everything from offset n to the end of the sequence. ---- eth.src[2] == 83 ---- The example above uses the n format to specify a single range. In this case the element in the sequence at offset n is selected. This is equivalent to n:1. ---- eth.src[0:3,1-2,:4,4:,2] == 00:00:83:00:83:00:00:83:00:20:20:83 ---- Wireshark allows you to string together single ranges in a comma separated list to form compound ranges as shown above.

Examples

Show only SMTP (port 25) and ICMP traffic:

•  tcp.port eq 25 or icmp

Show only traffic in the LAN (192.168.x.x), between workstations and servers -- no Internet:

• ip.src==192.168.0.0/16 and ip.dst==192.168.0.0/16

Some filter fields match against multiple protocol fields. For example, "ip.addr" matches against both the IP source and destination addresses in the IP header. The same is true for "tcp.port", "udp.port", "eth.addr", and others. It's important to note that

•  ip.addr == 10.43.54.65
  is equivalent to
   ip.src == 10.43.54.65 or ip.dst == 10.43.54.65

The "slice" feature is also useful to filter on the vendor identifier part (OUI) of the MAC address, see the Ethernet page for details. Thus you may restrict the display to only packets from a specific device manufacturer. E.g. for DELL machines only:

•   eth.addr[0:3]==00:06:5B

It is also possible to search for characters appearing anywhere in a field or protocol by using the matches operator.

Match packets that contains the 3-byte sequence 0x81, 0x60, 0x03 anywhere in the UDP header or payload:

•   udp contains 81:60:03

Match HTTP requests where the last characters in the uri are the characters "gl=se":

•   http.request.uri matches "gl=se$"

 

More:

https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/ChWorkBuildDisplayFilterSection.html