Ngrep
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ngrep strives to provide most of GNU grep's common features, applying them to the network layer. ngrep is a pcap-aware tool that will allow you to specify extended regular or hexadecimal expressions to match against data payloads of packets. It currently recognizes IPv4/6, TCP, UDP, ICMPv4/6, IGMP and Raw across Ethernet, PPP, SLIP, FDDI, Token Ring and null interfaces, and understands BPF filter logic in the same fashion as more common packet sniffing tools, such as tcpdump and snoop. It was written by Jordan Ritter.
Usage
Note: See here for detailed examples.
- Example: Basic Packet Sniffing
ngrep -d any port 25 ngrep -d any 'error' port syslog ngrep -wi -d any 'user|pass' port 21
- Example: Debugging HTTP interactions
ngrep port 80 ngrep -W byline port 80
- Example: Processing PCAP dump files, looking for patterns
ngrep -O /tmp/dns.dump -d any -T port domain ngrep -w 'm' -I /tmp/dns.dump ngrep -tD ns3 -I /tmp/dns.dump ngrep -I /tmp/dns.dump port 80
See also
- nmap — network exploration tool and security scanner[1]
- tcpdump — dump traffic on a network[2]
- snoop — capture and inspect network packets
- netcat (aka nc) — a featured networking utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using the TCP/IP protocol.[3]
- Netfilter
- NetCalc
- Whois
