Support capturing on multiple interfaces #480

riccardomanfrin · 2015-09-07T13:03:08Z

I would be good to be able to listen on two or more interfaces in promisquous mode, which, to my knowledge/understanding is not supported.
There is unofficial documentation stating that multiple "-i" options do the job, but it appears as only the last interface is actually fetched.

guyharris · 2015-09-07T14:54:24Z

I would be good to be able to listen on two or more interfaces in promisquous mode, which, to my knowledge/understanding is not supported.

Listening on two or more interfaces isn't supported at all, except by capturing on the "any" device in Linux, and that device doesn't support promiscuous mode.

There is unofficial documentation stating that multiple "-i" options do the job

If we have documentation saying that, it needs to be fixed.

If somebody else has documentation saying that, they're mistaken and should stop saying that; perhaps they've confused tcpdump with Wireshark's dumpcap and/or TShark, which do support capturing on multiple interfaces.

dumpcap and TShark support writing pcapng files; tcpdump writes capture files using libpcap, which doesn't yet support writing pcapng files. You'd need pcapng to support the general case of capturing on multiple interfaces and saving to a file; we could, in principle, support tcpdump with multiple -i options and without -w, so that it prints packets, without pcapng support.

riccardomanfrin · 2015-09-07T15:05:07Z

Thanks for the fast reply.
I'll give a try with tshark. If yoy need I can provide you with reference to misleading documentation from external source.

guyharris · 2015-09-07T17:24:13Z

If yoy need I can provide you with reference to misleading documentation from external source.

Yes, please. That needs to be fixed.

infrastation · 2015-11-15T19:38:47Z

@riccardomanfrin, could you provide the link? Thank you.

riccardomanfrin · 2015-11-16T08:30:46Z

http://edoceo.com/cli/tcpdump

riccardomanfrin · 2015-11-16T08:31:20Z

It's my first output on G when searching for "tcpdump multiple interfaces"

infrastation · 2015-11-16T09:34:07Z

That page has got interesting comments. Apparently we cannot fix the Internet but I have left them a message.

Shall this issue remain open as a feature request?

riccardomanfrin · 2015-11-16T10:19:10Z

I guess so ;)
As for the question, as a prospective user, I'd definitely make use of such feature, therefore I would answer yes.

Thanks,
R

raellic · 2016-06-26T13:51:50Z

Could you bridge the connections and capture on that interface? I haven't done that with tcpdump but I've done it with Snort, and it seems to work great. In testing with tcpdump I've just used "&" to initiate multiple captures on different interfaces. Specifically, a tapped connection in which send and receive are on separate wires. Not ideal, but it seems to work. For better performance I've been looking at using taskset to assign particular instances of tcpdump to particular cores. If the timestamps are all accurate, you could combine the resulting capture files and get the same result as if you had multi-interface capable tcpdump.

raellic · 2016-06-27T03:16:52Z

I tried bridging with tcpdump today and it worked fine. Just tap the connection and bridge send and receive, and you get a capture file that shows everything.

gvanem · 2016-06-27T05:44:16Z

.. and you get a capture file that shows everything.

Not everything. AFAICS you'll get all packets intermingled with no information on which each interface each packet is from.

Depending on what you want to accomplish, writing to several .pcap files simultaneously and using tcpslice to extract the wanted details could be an alternative.

riccardomanfrin · 2016-06-27T07:37:52Z

Not everything. AFAICS you'll get all packets intermingled with no information on which each interface each packet is from.

Sadly.. I thought that since it works for any and single interfaces, supporting a specific set of them would be patch work, but I haven't read the code so I'm not in the position to make such guess

raellic · 2016-06-27T10:27:41Z

Not everything. AFAICS you'll get all packets intermingled with no information on which each interface each packet is from.

You're right, I don't get interface in the capture on a bridged connection. I'm running RHEL 6.8 with the latest versions of tcpdump and libpcap. Since I'm just capturing on a single tapped connection at the moment, this works for me, but if I were to capture on a bridge containing unrelated interfaces, I would definitely want to see which interface the packets were on. That would also be extremely useful for a tool like OmniPeek that supports multi-segment analysis. Instead of aggregating multiple capture files with OmniPeek, you could have one capture running on your router or an inline appliance and get all the traffic from multiple interfaces, with a perfect record of which packets came in on which interface.

raellic · 2016-06-27T15:02:53Z

Thanks, actually I edited my post to remove the Mac OS X section because I realized that I was capturing on "any" interface rather than on a bridged connection, so it wasn't relevant to my post. I was going to try bridging two interfaces and capturing on that, but Mac OS X doesn't apparently have the usual brctl program. I will figure it out and see what happens.

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Out of curiosity, I tried tcpdump on Mac OS X 10.11.5 on multiple interfaces and it does
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gvanem · 2016-06-28T07:57:50Z

Thanks, actually I edited my post to remove the Mac OS X section because ...

I noticed that too, but a bit too late. That's why I deleted my reply.

guyharris · 2016-06-28T08:16:30Z

but Mac OS X doesn't apparently have the usual brctl program

If "usual" means "common-on-Linux", then that's because OS X/Darwin isn't Linux (just as *BSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, etc. aren't Linux).

raellic · 2016-07-03T13:37:08Z

As a start, I'm looking at identifying in the output which interface the packets came in on when capturing on a bridged connection. I'm new to this project; anyone know roughly where in the source this feature should go? Thanks.

infrastation · 2016-07-03T15:54:57Z

It may happen you are looking to finish this work.

djbusby · 2017-02-12T07:16:17Z

Hey, I'm the one who has the site with the bad information on -i ; I've finally fixed that page after '@infrastation' requested the update in 2015. Better late than never I guess

infrastation · 2017-02-12T07:47:03Z

Yes, better late than never. Thank you!

leonerd · 2018-04-11T20:40:36Z

@raellic:

As a start, I'm looking at identifying in the output which interface the packets came in on when capturing on a bridged connection. I'm new to this project; anyone know roughly where in the source this feature should go? Thanks.

My suggestion would be to implement the LINUX_SLL2 header type, which includes interface index information.

infrastation · 2018-07-24T10:47:22Z

Given the initial SLL2 implementation, what is the main reason to keep this feature request open? Is it because tcpdump -i any does not put any of the interfaces into promiscuous mode or is it because the user cannot specify exact few interfaces as opposed to all interfaces in the system? Please try to describe specific practical use cases to support your point.

sbonds · 2018-07-24T14:33:48Z

For my use cases, it would be great to specify a specific subset of interfaces and capture on that set. Information on which packets came from which interface is important for later decoding. I do not need promiscuous mode except in very rare cases.

leonerd · 2018-07-24T19:09:37Z

Presumably if the ifindex or ifname filter syntax were implemented (because SLL2 has the interface index known), then this would be a simple matter of

-i any -f "ifindex 2 or ifindex 5 or ..."

infrastation · 2018-07-24T20:50:29Z

That could be simpler than the one thread per interface parallel captures I had in my mind.

fenner · 2019-04-25T20:32:18Z

Interestingly, libpcap subtracts SLL2_HDR_LEN from constant loads on LINUX_SLL2 sockets, so you have to use ether[-4068:4]' to get it to install ether[-4088:4]` in the kernel to access the ifIndex. Presumably "real" lipbcap code would avoid this detail, but putting it here if anyone else is experimenting.

This fixes the offset issue I mention in the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump#480 (comment)

fenner · 2019-05-05T14:56:41Z

I’ve also implemented the ifindex filter keyword at https://github.com/fenner/libpcap/tree/ifindex . Using this, tcpdump -y linux_sll2 -i any ifindex 2 or ifindex 4 or ifindex 6 works to capture on 3 interfaces simultaneously. I’ll submit a pull request for this after a little more testing.

I haven’t yet dealt with interface names, due to the conflict with the existing PF code. It’s reasonably straightforward to deal with, I think, but does have some subtle details like converting name to ifindex isn’t necessarily correct for save files generated In a different context.

mcr · 2019-05-06T14:24:47Z

fenner <notifications@github.com> wrote: I’ve also implemented the ifindex filter keyword at https://github.com/fenner/libpcap/tree/ifindex . Using this, tcpdump -y linux_sll2 -i any ifindex 2 or ifindex 4 or ifindex 6 works to capture on 3 interfaces simultaneously. I’ll submit a pull request for this after a little more testing. So this might allow one to capture on only an interface that is not yet up. It's often very difficult to capture the first few packets (DADs, PADTs, etc.)

This fixes the offset issue I mention in the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump#480 (comment)

This fixes the offset issue I mention in the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump#480 (comment) (cherry picked from commit eebbdd4)

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README.linux.md isn't Markdown, rename it just README.linux. pcapng: Support reading version 1.2, which some writers produce, and which is the same as 1.0 (some new block types were added, but that's not sufficient reason to bump the minor version number, as code that understands those new block types can handle them in a 1.0 file) Linux: Drop support for text-mode USB captures, as we require a 2.6.27 or later kernel (credit to Chaoyuan Peng for noting the sscanf vulnerabilities in the text-mode code that got me to realize that we didn't need this code any more) Bluetooth: fix non-blocking mode. Don't assume that all compilers used to build for Linux support the __atomic builtins Windows: Add more information in "interface disappeared" error messages, in the hopes of trying to figure out the cause. Treat ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED as "device was removed". Indicate in the error message which "device was removed" error occurred. Report the Windows error status if PacketSendPacket() fails. Use %lu for ULONGs in error message formats. Don't treat the inability to find airpcap.dll as an error. Ignore spurious error reports by Microsoft Surface mobile telephony modem driver rpcap: Clean up error checking and error messages for server address lookup. Tuesday, December 29, 2020 Summary for 1.10.0 libpcap release Add support for capturing on DPDK devices Label most APIs by the first release in which they're available Fix some memory leaks, including in pcap_compile() Add pcap_datalink_val_to_description_or_dlt() Handle the pcap private data in a fashion that makes fewer assumptions about memory layouts (might fix GitHub issue #940 on ARM) Fix some thread safety issues pcap_findalldevs(): don't sort interfaces by unit number Always return a list of supported time-stamp types, even if only host time stamps are supported Increase the maximum snaplen for LINKTYPE_USBPCAP/DLT_USBPCAP Report the DLT description in error messages Add pcap_init() for first-time initialization and global option setting; it's not required, but may be used Remove (unused) SITA support Capture file reading: Correctly handle pcapng captures with more than one IDB with a snspshot length greater than the supported maximum Capture file writing: Create the file in pcap_dump_open_append() if it doesn't exist Packet filtering: Fix "unknown ether proto 'aarp'" Add a new filter "ifindex" for DLT_LINUX_SLL2 files on all platforms and live Linux captures Add a hack to the optimizer to try to catch certain optimizer loops (should prevent GitHub issue #112) Show special Linux BPF offsets symbolically in bpf_image() and bpf_dump() Added support for ICMPv6 types 1-4 as tokens with names Remove undocumented and rather old "ether proto" protocols Catch invalid IPv4 addresses in filters Don't assume ARM supports unaligned accesses Security and other issues found by analysis: Fix various security issues reported by Charles Smith at Tangible Security Fix various security issues reported by Include Security Fix some issues found by cppcheck. Add some overflow checks in the optimizer rpcap: Support rpcap-over-TLS Redo protocol version negotiation to avoid problems with old servers (it still works with servers using the old negotiation, as well as servers not supporting negotiation) Error handling cleanups Add some new authentication libpcap error codes for specific errors Fix some inetd issues in rpcapd Fix rpcapd core dumps with invalid configuration file On UN*X, don't have rpcapd tell the client why authentication failed, so a brute-force attacker can't distinguish between "unknown user name" and "known user name, wrong password" Allow rpcapd to rebind more rapidly (GitHub issue #765) Documentation: Improve man pages, including adding backward compatibility notes Building and testing: Require, and assume, some level of C99 support in the C compiler Require Visual Studio 2015 or later if using Visual Studio Fix configure script issues, including with libnl on Linux Fix CMake issues Squelch complaints from Bison about "%define api.pure" being deprecated Fix compilation of pcap-tc.c Linux: Require PF_PACKET support, and kernel 2.6.27 or later Handle systems without AF_INET or AF_UNIX socket support Get rid of Wireless Extensions for turning monitor mode on Proper memory sync for PACKET_MMAP (may prevent GitHub issue #898) Drop support for libnl 1 and 2. Return error on interface going away, but not if it just went down but is still present Set socket protocol only after packet ring configured, reducing bogus packet drop reports Get ifdrop stats from sysfs. When adjusting BPF programs, do not subtract the SLL[2]_HDR_LEN if the location is negative (special metadata offset), to preserve references to metadata; see the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump#480 (comment) Report a warning for unknown ARPHRD types Have pcap_breakloop() forcibly break out of a sleeping capture loop Add support for DSA data link types For raw USB bus capture, use the snapshot length to set the buffer size, and set the len field to reflect the length in the URB (GitHub issue #808) With a timeout of zero, wait indefinitely Clean up support for some non-GNU libc C libraries Add DLT_LINUX_SLL2 for cooked-mode captures Probe CONFIGURATION descriptor of connected USB devices Treat EPERM on ethtool ioctls as meaning "not supported", as permissions checks are done before checking whether the ioctl is supported at all macOS: Cope with getting EPWROFF from SIOCGIFMEDIA Treat EPERM on SIOCGIFMEDIA as meaning "not supported", as permissions checks are done before checking whether the ioctl is supported at all Treat ENXIO when reading packets as meaning "the interface was removed" Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went down", if the interface was removed during a capture FreeBSD: Treat ENXIO as meaning "the interface was removed" Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went down", if the interface was removed during a capture NetBSD: Treat ENXIO as meaning "the interface was removed" Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went down", if the interface was removed during a capture OpenBSD: Treat EIO as meaning "the interface was removed" Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went down", if the interface was removed during a capture DragonFly BSD: Treat ENXIO as meaning "the interface was removed" Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went down", if the interface was removed during a capture Solaris: Treat ENXIO as meaning "the interface was removed" Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went down", if the interface was removed during a capture AIX: Fix loading of BPF kernel extension Treat ENXIO as meaning "the interface was removed" Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went down", if the interface was removed during a capture Windows: Make the snapshot length work even if pcap_setfilter() isn't called Fix compilation on Cygwin/MSYS Add pcap_handle(), and deprecate pcap_fileno() Report PCAP_ERROR_NO_SUCH_DEVICE for a non-existent device Return an appropriate error message for device removed or device unusable due to a suspend/resume Report a warning for unknown NdisMedium types Have pcap_breakloop() forcibly break out of a sleeping capture loop Clean up building DLL Handle CRT mismatch for pcap_dump_fopen() Map NdisMediumWirelessWan to DLT_RAW Add AirPcap support in a module, rather than using WinPcap/Npcap's support for it Report the system error for PacketSetHwFilter() failures Add support for getting and setting packet time stamp types with Npcap Have pcap_init() allow selecting whether the API should use local code page strings or UTF-8 strings (including error messages) Haiku: Add capture support

guyharris changed the title ~~Selectively admit promisquous mode on multiple interfaces~~ Support capturing on multiple interfaces Sep 7, 2015

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Replace exit() with the new exit_tcpdump(), which calls smiExit() #535

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[Feature] Add capability to print interface name #296

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Do not subtract the SLL[2]_HDR_LEN if the location is negative. the-tcpdump-group/libpcap#820

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Do not subtract the SLL[2]_HDR_LEN if the location is negative.

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This fixes the offset issue I mention in the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump#480 (comment)

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Preserve references to metadata when adjusting the program.

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This fixes the offset issue I mention in the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump#480 (comment)

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Preserve references to metadata when adjusting the program.

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This fixes the offset issue I mention in the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump#480 (comment)

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Preserve references to metadata when adjusting the program.

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This fixes the offset issue I mention in the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump#480 (comment)

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Preserve references to metadata when adjusting the program.

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This fixes the offset issue I mention in the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump#480 (comment)

fenner added a commit to fenner/libpcap that referenced this issue May 20, 2019

Preserve references to metadata when adjusting the program.

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This fixes the offset issue I mention in the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump#480 (comment)

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Preserve references to metadata when adjusting the program.

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This fixes the offset issue I mention in the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump#480 (comment)

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Preserve references to metadata when adjusting the program.

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This fixes the offset issue I mention in the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump#480 (comment)

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Preserve references to metadata when adjusting the program.

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This fixes the offset issue I mention in the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump#480 (comment)

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Preserve references to metadata when adjusting the program.

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This fixes the offset issue I mention in the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump#480 (comment)

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Preserve references to metadata when adjusting the program.

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This fixes the offset issue I mention in the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump#480 (comment)

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Preserve references to metadata when adjusting the program.

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This fixes the offset issue I mention in the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump#480 (comment)

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Preserve references to metadata when adjusting the program.

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