Wireshark

Wireshark is a network traffic monitoring tool.

basic usage

This is covered really well here

slightly advanced tricks

SSHdump

You can capture packets from an interface on a remote machine using SSH and tcpdump.

On Mac/Ubuntu this is built into Wireshark by default and you can select it as an option from the capture interface screen. (I think on Windows there's a plugin. Go find out and update this wiki!)

You just give it the SSH details and it runs tcpdump on the remote machine.

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