tcpdump - view whole packet in CLI

[santonic]

Hello.

I know I can capture whole packets (snaplen 0) and select verbose (and verbose ++) output when viewing packet captures with tcpdump on mmt interface.

But can I see whole packet in CLI? Verbose output only seems to add some header fields, I can't see content of a packet.

I know I can export the files via SCP. But some customers won't agree to open SSH from their mgmt network to let's say client VPN address pool.

[gwesson · Accepted solution]

I think you want the "hex-" command options:

 view-pcap hex
+ hex              Print each packet (minus link header) in hex
+ hex-ascii        Print each packet (minus link header) in hex and ASCII
+ hex-ascii-link   Print each packet (including link header) in hex and ASCII
+ hex-link         Print each packet (including link header) in hex

For example, using the full "verbose++ yes" option (top line) with "hex-ascii-link yes" gets this type of output:

11:50:35.821556 70:8b:cd:51:d6:90 (oui Unknown) > 33:33:00:00:00:0c (oui Unknown), ethertype IPv6 (0x86dd), length 718: 
        0x0000:  3333 0000 000c 708b cd51 d690 86dd 6009  33....p..Q....`.
        0x0010:  e6a6 0298 1101 fe80 0000 0000 0000 5c97  ..............\.
        0x0020:  2f45 3d8c f357 ff02 0000 0000 0000 0000  /E=..W..........
        0x0030:  0000 0000 000c db69 0e76 0298 13f2 3c3f  .......i.v....<?
        0x0040:  786d 6c20 7665 7273 696f 6e3d 2231 2e30  xml.version="1.0
        0x0050:  2220 656e 636f 6469 6e67 3d22 7574 662d  ".encoding="utf-
        0x0060:  3822 3f3e 3c73 6f61 703a 456e 7665 6c6f  8"?><soap:Envelo
        0x0070:  7065 2078 6d6c 6e73 3a73 6f61 703d 2268  pe.xmlns:soap="h
        0x0080:  7474 703a 2f2f 7777 772e 7733 2e6f 7267  ttp://www.w3.org
        0x0090:  2f32 3030 332f 3035 2f73 6f61 702d 656e  /2003/05/soap-en
        0x00a0:  7665 6c6f 7065 2220 786d 6c6e 733a 7773  velope".xmlns:ws
        0x00b0:  613d 2268 7474 703a 2f2f 7363 6865 6d61  a="http://schema
.....

[santonic]

Yeah, that's it. Thanx!