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Tony_Marques_92
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Mar 26, 2013

TCPDUMP captures

Is there a way to capture traffic through an LTM in both directions? I've captured a few tcpdumps, but they are all in one direction (i.e. filter a specific ip address and it is always either a sour...
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smp_86112
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Apr 10, 2013
Posted By Tony Marques on 03/26/2013 12:34 PM

 

Hi Steve,

 

 

After I read your post I realize what I was doing "wrong". I was limiting my tcptump to destination port 4000. Therefore, that would only give me traffic in one direction. I removed that option and I'm now seeing everything I want to see (too much in fact).

 

 

Thanks,

 

Tony

 

If you just do this:

 

tcpdump -ni <host> and <port>

 

this will capture all traffic to/from and to/from port 4000. This should limit the traffic to what you want, but still see both directions. Sorry about the original post, my gt and lt chars got munged...