Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Re: [Ethereal-bugs] [Bug 538] New: Filtering a specific IP Addr

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From: "michael shih" <shihboy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 05:49:56 +0000

Hi Guy,

Thank you for your tip. It is working perfectly but is there a way to filter the destination ip and not the source?


From:  Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
To:  shihboy@xxxxxxxxxxx
CC:  ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  Re: [Ethereal-bugs] [Bug 538] New: Filtering a specific IP Address under one Network
Date:  Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:48:45 -0700
>bugzilla-do-not-reply@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>>Hi! This is not really a report of any bugs I discovered in your
>>system
>
>Then it shouldn't be filed as a bug...
>
>>but I
>>just would like to ask for your help in ways of capturing a filter.
>
>...it should, instead, be mailed to ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx.
>
>>I would like
>>to capture the network usage of the host with the IP that starts
>>with 9. May it
>>be 9.187.110.12 or 9.68.237.226. Is there a way for this to be
>>possible?
>
>The tcpdump man page describes the capture filter syntax.  If you
>want to capture only traffic going to or from hosts on the 9.x.x.x
>network, the man page says you should do:
>
>       net net/len
>              True  if  the  IPv4/v6 address matches net with a
>netmask
>              len bits wide.  May be qualified with src or dst.
>
>"net 9.0.0.0/8", or
>
>       net net mask netmask
>              True if the IP address matches net with the specific
>net-
>              mask.  May be qualified with src or dst.  Note that  
>this
>              syntax is not valid for IPv6 net.
>
>"net 9.0.0.0/255.0.0.0".
>
>If you've already captured the traffic, and you want to limit the
>display to show only traffic to and from hosts on the 9.x.x.x
>network, you would do
>
> ip.addr == 9.0.0.0/8


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