[Estanislao Gonzalez <estanislao.gonzalez@xxxxxxx>]

 As far as I know you need to be root to run tcpdump, and it's not 
because of the program but because the program needs to access the kernel.



On 09/30/2010 10:58 PM, Phil_Deming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Estani, thank you so much for getting me started. That was Great Help !
> but now:
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> The Script ran perfectly with the obvious changes needed !
> I new the Script  was working, B U T, tcpdump comes back with Permission
> Denied. I chmod to 777 and 755 with no effect.
> I ran it on Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04, same results. I googled it and did the
> 9.04 fix and it didn't fix it.
>      (aa-complain /usr/sbin/tcpdump - This will change it to complain)
>      (aa-enforce /usr/sbin/tcpdump - This will renable the AppArmor profile
> for tcpdump)
> When I changed the Script to use tshark it ran perfectly and gave good
> results.
> What do I do to fix tcpdump on Ubuntu?
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>    Re: [Wireshark-users] Scripts for filtering a directory file captures to
>    only include specific Subnet packets in new files in a new directory
>    (Document link: Phil Deming)
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>    Phil Deming
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> Thanks. I'll try it now.  Phil
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>     Re: [Wireshark-users] Scripts for filtering a directory file captures to
>     only include specific Subnet packets in new files in a new directory
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>     Estanislao Gonzalez
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>    From:  Estanislao Gonzalez<estanislao.gonzalez@xxxxxxx>
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>    Hi Phil,
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> I think you could use something like:
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> for file in second_dir/*; do
>       tcpdump -r $file src net a.a.a.a/x dst net b.b.b.b/y>>  $file.filtered
> done
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> You could join all resulting files for a given amount of time with
> tcpslice if that simple append does not do the trick.
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> I haven't tested this out, but it should give you a clue as to where to
> go from this point.
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> Cheers,
> Estani
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> On 09/29/2010 12:04 AM, Phil_Deming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >         I am running Ubuntu 9.10 Server and am collecting  packets with
> > TShark 1.4 from about 40 Subnets (Offices)  traversing  my aggregation
> > Subnet (the Datacenter). There are 9000  64meg files collected per day
> > before overwriting begins. When a Network question arises, I copy the 1
> to
> > 3 hours of files to a 2nd Directory so that they won't be overwritten
> > later. That's about 180+  64 meg files.
> >         I need to filter all of the files in the 2nd Directory to create
> new
> > files only containing packets from 1 to 4 transmitting or receiving
> > Subnets. I need all of the IPs from each subnet.
> >         Next, want to see the "Top Talkers" during this period.  That
> should
> > be the easy part.
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> >         I presume grep, bash, awk editcap, tshark, tcpdump are the tools.
> Can
> > someone get me started with some scripts / examples?
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