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Old 04-25-2005, 03:02 PM   #1
JMakar
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Question Filtering a range of ports


I am needing some direction on a tcpdump statement that isn't working correctly.

What I'm trying to do is filter on a range of ports. What I've got is something like: tcpdump "tcp[0:2] >= 8192 and tcp[0:2] <= 8294"

If I just do the tcp[0:2] >= 8192 it works fine. Same with just doing the <=8294. But when I combine them together with an 'and' it filters everything out and I see no traffic at all, even when it's in that port range.

Have checked all the sources I know to check and they all seem to indicate the syntax of the statement is correct. Am I missing something? I'm wondering if there's another way to deal with ranges.
 
Old 04-25-2005, 03:54 PM   #2
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JMakar:

Strange.. Using your exact expression, it works just fine here. I don't know much about the tcpdump expression stuff, and don't have alot of time to research it, but just thought I'd let you know, at minimum, that it was working ok.

Try it for a different range of ports.
Try using '&&' instead of 'and'.

Sorry to not be of more help.. )=
 
Old 04-25-2005, 04:32 PM   #3
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Thanks for the feedback.

I have tried it with other port ranges with the same results. Also tried with &&, but that didn't provide any different results than using 'and' Don't know what's going on here...
 
Old 04-27-2005, 12:09 PM   #4
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Some more info...

After some testing, found out that doing the 'and' does work....just not when it's the same offset in both parts of the statement.

For example:
tcpdump 'tcp[0:2] > 100 and tcp[2:2] < 200' this works as expected.
tcpdump 'tcp[0:2] > 100 and tcp[0:2] < 200' filters out everthing instead of providing traffic within that range

Anyone know what's up with this?
 
  


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