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Re: limit of IP filters in dumpcap
From: Peter Wu <peter () lekensteyn nl>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 15:50:14 +0200
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 02:08:40AM +0000, Jianhong Xia wrote:
Hi, I am not sure if anyone asked this question before. I am using dumpcap to capture network traffic with thousands of clients from local sub-network. I would like to use IP filter to capture the traffic from/to selectively IP addresses. I know if I have a few IP addresses to capture, I can use dumpcap -i en0 -f 'host x.a.b.c and host x.d.e.f and host x.g.h.i' -w traffic.pcap However, if I have thousands of IP addresses that I want to capture their traffic, how many IP address filters that dumpcap can support?
Not sure what the exact limit is, but I don't think that it scales to 1000s of addresses. Since you mentioned a local subnetwork, there is another option. To match all addresses within the 192.168.0.0/24 net, use the "net 192.168.0.0/16" capture filter. If that is not applicable, perhaps you can have a look at using ipsets and nflog. With the "ipset" program you create a set of IP addresses which you can then match with "iptables" and send matching packets to the NFLOG target. Then you can capture from the "nflog" interface. See also: http://ipset.netfilter.org/ipset.man.html http://ipset.netfilter.org/iptables-extensions.man.html https://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/NFLOG -- Kind regards, Peter Wu https://lekensteyn.nl ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-users mailing list <wireshark-users () wireshark org> Archives: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-users Unsubscribe: https://www.wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-users mailto:wireshark-users-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
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- Re: limit of IP filters in dumpcap Peter Wu (Apr 18)
- Re: limit of IP filters in dumpcap Jianhong Xia (Apr 18)
- Re: limit of IP filters in dumpcap Peter Wu (Apr 18)