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Packets not received by TUN device

I created a TUN device(nat64) and created a route so that all the required packets are forwarded to the TUN device from an eth device. But, I see that many packets are not received by the TUN device. ...
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tcpdump and https

Why following command doesnt grab the packets to faceebook site sudo tcpdump host facebook.com and dst port 443 but next grabs sudo tcpdump host java.com
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iptrace for linux: how can I trace full packet contents?

I normally use iptrace on our AIX servers to get packet traces but have recently found out that this doesn't work for other 'nix systems - namely Centos. Does anyone know what the analog would be? ...
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what level of the network stack does tcpdump get its info from?

As I was trying in vain to fix a faulty ethernet controller here, one thing I tried was running tcpdump on the machine. I found it interesting that tcpdump was able to detect that some of the ICMP ...
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Buffer size for capturing packets in kernel space?

Going through the man page of tcpdump, it seems kernel can drop the packets if the buffer is full. I was wondering if: that size is configurable and/or where can I see the size for my distro? From ...
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Is it possible to capture all network traffic using tcpdump?

I have 3 computers on the same sub-net. Computer A and B are communicating with each other (ping, telnet, etc.). I'd like to see the packets between A and B on computer C. Is it possible to do this ...
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Understanding tcpdump output on a linux router

My router has an atm0 interface and a VLAN (atm0.1) interface, atm0.1 has the WAN IP address. When using tcpdump -i atm0, the packets captured are only outgoing packet (LAN to WAN). 05:34:19.504895 ...