Network geeks among you may remember my article, “Linux Socket Filter: Sniffing Bytes over the Network”, in the June 2001 issue of LJ, regarding the use of the packet filter built inside the Linux ...

Sharing files between Linux and Android has often been a complicated process involving unreliable Linux utilities or complex network setups. A new application, Packet, aims to solve this by providing ...

Packet capture is a mechanism that copies packets received from thenetwork and pushes them into user space making the frame available toan application for further analysis. These applications can be ...

Linus Torvalds releases Linux Kernel 6.19. Discover the 300% TCP boost, PCIe Link Encryption, Live Update Orchestrator for VMs, and more.

In your rules you says something like "all packets from network 172.30.0.0 get dropped" and every time a packet comes in the kernel compares it to all the rules you're written, as soon as it finds one ...

The overall equation is pretty simple: If you want to understand network traffic, you really should install Wireshark. And, if you really want to use Wireshark effectively, you should consider this ...