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Maneesh_72711
Cirrostratus
Feb 26, 2014TCPDUMP OUTPUT
I have a strange situation, when I run a tcpdump without the -n switch I do not get any output on the interface, but as soon as I add -n I start seeing the packets. Has anyone else encountered the sa...
Mike_61663
Cirrus
Feb 27, 2014-n means don't resolve the IP addresses to hostnames.
Do you have DNS set up and is it working? I would recommend always disabling tcpdump name resolution when doing realtime packet captures. i.e. Always use -n for realtime captures!
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