So this probably only works if you have root – I have root, and I’m afraid I’m not going back to stock to test it. Tcpdump version 3.9.8 libpcap version 0.9.8Īnd the latest versions are 4.1.1 and 1.1.1 respectively, so it’s a little out of date, but fully functional.
Install tcpdump android android#
So I was searching around for a tool and came across – A site about Android and software engineering, and very kindly they host an Android version of tcpdump. I know some basic shell command like cat, grep, ls, but not enough to do my own Android cross compile. The only issue now is to find a version made for Android. Luckily, the files generated are compatible with Wireshark, being based on the same packet capture software. Tcpdump is a command line tool for linux that can capture and analyse packets from the console, or write them to a file. Porting is the process of adapting software so that an executable program can be created for a computing environment that is different from the one for which it was originally designedĪndroid has a linux kernel, so surely there must be a libpcab based tool out there to capture packets?
WinPcap is based on libpcap, a linux tool that’s been ported to Windows. WinPcap consists of a driver, that extends the operating system to provide low-level network access, and a library that is used to easily access the low-level network layers. I’m interested in intercepting the data my Android device is sending – I use Wireshark under windows, using winPcap to capture packets.
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