How to display captured packets in HEX and ASCII in Linux

Question

Hi Guys,

I am new to the RedHat Linux system. I want to display the captured data in HEX and ASCII. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

To display the packet value you can use tcpdump command. This command with option -XX captures the data of each packet, including its link level header in HEX and ASCII format.

$ tcpdump -XX -i eth0