I needed to capture some packets on a server to import into Wireshark on a Windows XP computer but hadn’t done this in awhile so I needed to refresh on how to do this. I ended up using dumpcap to capture the data, then obtain the dump file on the windows computer, and then imported into Wireshark. One thing I had a moment of trouble with was the dumpcap filter syntax. Below are some examples of how to use the filter that the dumpcap -f switch uses.

Basic dumpcap Capture[All Data]:

dumpcap -w /path/to/file

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