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I can definitely maybe do this! (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 4 points 5 days ago* (3 children)

As someone who understands the concept of network but has never professionally entered the field, i assume this just dumps a TCP packet to be inspected, correct?

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago

    Yes, but before I used it I assumed that its scope was pretty much limited to what you just mentioned. Instead it can operate on most protocols both above and below layer 4, and it is incredibly useful as a traffic capture tool to produce a .pcap on a remote headless machine which you can then load into Wireshark. The "dump" part is the interesting one, not the "tcp" ;)

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Yes. Also learn about certs if you need to deal with encryption https etc.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago (1 child)

    Thank you for the affirmation, I got reverse proxies and certificates relatively down, however I am struggling to understand headers and their purposes, I know Mozilla has great documentation regarding headers but lately I’ve gotten lazy, haha.

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