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PCAP-FILTER(7)	       Miscellaneous Information Manual		PCAP-FILTER(7)

NAME
       pcap-filter - packet filter syntax

DESCRIPTION
       pcap_compile()  is used to compile a string into	a filter program.  The
       resulting filter	program	can then be applied to some stream of  packets
       to  determine which packets will	be supplied to pcap_loop(3), pcap_dis-
       patch(3), pcap_next(3), or pcap_next_ex(3).

       The filter expression consists of one or	more  primitives.   Primitives
       usually consist of an id	(name or number) preceded by one or more qual-
       ifiers.	There are three	different kinds	of qualifier:

       type   type qualifiers say what kind of thing the  id  name  or	number
	      refers  to.   Possible types are host, net , port	and portrange.
	      E.g., `host foo',	`net 128.3', `port 20',	`portrange 6000-6008'.
	      If there is no type qualifier, host is assumed.

       dir    dir qualifiers specify a particular transfer direction to	and/or
	      from id.	Possible directions are	src, dst, src or dst, src  and
	      dst,  ra,	 ta, addr1, addr2, addr3, and addr4.  E.g., `src foo',
	      `dst net 128.3', `src or dst port	ftp-data'.  If there is	no dir
	      qualifier,  src  or  dst	is assumed.  The ra, ta, addr1,	addr2,
	      addr3, and addr4 qualifiers are only valid for IEEE 802.11 Wire-
	      less LAN link layers.

       proto  proto  qualifiers	 restrict  the match to	a particular protocol.
	      Possible protos are: ether, fddi,	tr, wlan, ip, ip6, arp,	 rarp,
	      decnet,  tcp  and	 udp.  E.g., `ether src	foo', `arp net 128.3',
	      `tcp  port  21',	`udp   portrange   7000-7009',	 `wlan	 addr2
	      0:2:3:4:5:6'.   If  there	 is  no	proto qualifier, all protocols
	      consistent with the type are assumed.   E.g.,  `src  foo'	 means
	      `(ip  or	arp  or	rarp) src foo' (except the latter is not legal
	      syntax), `net bar' means `(ip or arp or rarp) net	bar' and `port
	      53' means	`(tcp or udp) port 53'.

       [`fddi'	is actually an alias for `ether'; the parser treats them iden-
       tically as meaning ``the	data link level	used on	the specified  network
       interface.''  FDDI headers contain Ethernet-like	source and destination
       addresses, and often contain Ethernet-like packet  types,  so  you  can
       filter on these FDDI fields just	as with	the analogous Ethernet fields.
       FDDI headers also contain other fields, but you cannot  name  them  ex-
       plicitly	in a filter expression.

       Similarly,  `tr'	and `wlan' are aliases for `ether'; the	previous para-
       graph's statements about	FDDI headers also  apply  to  Token  Ring  and
       802.11  wireless	 LAN headers.  For 802.11 headers, the destination ad-
       dress is	the DA field and the source  address  is  the  SA  field;  the
       BSSID, RA, and TA fields	aren't tested.]

       In  addition  to	the above, there are some special `primitive' keywords
       that don't follow the pattern: gateway, broadcast,  less,  greater  and
       arithmetic expressions.	All of these are described below.

       More complex filter expressions are built up by using the words and, or
       and not to combine primitives.  E.g., `host foo and not	port  ftp  and
       not  port  ftp-data'.  To save typing, identical	qualifier lists	can be
       omitted.	 E.g., `tcp dst	port ftp or ftp-data or	domain'	is exactly the
       same  as	`tcp dst port ftp or tcp dst port ftp-data or tcp dst port do-
       main'.

       Allowable primitives are:

       dst host	host
	      True if the IPv4/v6 destination field of	the  packet  is	 host,
	      which may	be either an address or	a name.

       src host	host
	      True if the IPv4/v6 source field of the packet is	host.

       host host
	      True  if	either the IPv4/v6 source or destination of the	packet
	      is host.

	      Any of the above host expressions	can be prepended with the key-
	      words, ip, arp, rarp, or ip6 as in:
		   ip host host
	      which is equivalent to:
		   ether proto \ip and host host
	      If  host is a name with multiple IP addresses, each address will
	      be checked for a match.

       ether dst ehost
	      True if the Ethernet destination address is ehost.  Ehost	may be
	      either a name from /etc/ethers or	a numerical MAC	address	of the
	      form "xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx",	"xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx",  "xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-
	      xx",  "xxxx.xxxx.xxxx", "xxxxxxxxxxxx", or various mixes of ':',
	      '.', and '-', where each "x" is a	hex digit (0-9,	a-f, or	A-F).

       ether src ehost
	      True if the Ethernet source address is ehost.

       ether host ehost
	      True if either the Ethernet source  or  destination  address  is
	      ehost.

       gateway host
	      True  if	the packet used	host as	a gateway.  I.e., the Ethernet
	      source or	destination address was	host but neither the IP	source
	      nor  the	IP destination was host.  Host must be a name and must
	      be found both by the machine's  host-name-to-IP-address  resolu-
	      tion  mechanisms (host name file,	DNS, NIS, etc.)	and by the ma-
	      chine's	host-name-to-Ethernet-address	resolution   mechanism
	      (/etc/ethers, etc.).  (An	equivalent expression is
		   ether host ehost and	not host host
	      which  can  be  used  with  either  names	 or numbers for	host /
	      ehost.)  This syntax does	not work in IPv6-enabled configuration
	      at this moment.

       dst net net
	      True if the IPv4/v6 destination address of the packet has	a net-
	      work number of net.  Net may be either a name from the  networks
	      database	(/etc/networks,	 etc.)	or  a network number.  An IPv4
	      network  number  can  be	written	 as  a	dotted	 quad	(e.g.,
	      192.168.1.0), dotted triple (e.g., 192.168.1), dotted pair (e.g,
	      172.16),	or  single  number  (e.g.,   10);   the	  netmask   is
	      255.255.255.255  for a dotted quad (which	means that it's	really
	      a	host match), 255.255.255.0 for a  dotted  triple,  255.255.0.0
	      for  a  dotted  pair, or 255.0.0.0 for a single number.  An IPv6
	      network number  must  be	written	 out  fully;  the  netmask  is
	      ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff,	so  IPv6  "network" matches are	really
	      always host matches, and a  network  match  requires  a  netmask
	      length.

       src net net
	      True  if	the IPv4/v6 source address of the packet has a network
	      number of	net.

       net net
	      True if either the IPv4/v6 source	or destination address of  the
	      packet has a network number of net.

       net net mask netmask
	      True  if the IPv4	address	matches	net with the specific netmask.
	      May be qualified with src	or dst.	 Note that this	syntax is  not
	      valid for	IPv6 net.

       net net/len
	      True  if the IPv4/v6 address matches net with a netmask len bits
	      wide.  May be qualified with src or dst.

       dst port	port
	      True if the packet is ip/tcp, ip/udp, ip6/tcp or ip6/udp and has
	      a	destination port value of port.	 The port can be a number or a
	      name used	in /etc/services (see tcp(4P) and udp(4P)).  If	a name
	      is  used,	 both  the port	number and protocol are	checked.  If a
	      number or	ambiguous name	is  used,  only	 the  port  number  is
	      checked  (e.g.,  dst  port 513 will print	both tcp/login traffic
	      and udp/who traffic, and port domain will	print both  tcp/domain
	      and udp/domain traffic).

       src port	port
	      True if the packet has a source port value of port.

       port port
	      True  if	either the source or destination port of the packet is
	      port.

       dst portrange port1-port2
	      True if the packet is ip/tcp, ip/udp, ip6/tcp or ip6/udp and has
	      a	 destination  port  value  between port1 and port2.  port1 and
	      port2 are	interpreted in the same	fashion	as the port  parameter
	      for port.

       src portrange port1-port2
	      True  if	the  packet  has a source port value between port1 and
	      port2.

       portrange port1-port2
	      True if either the source	or destination port of the  packet  is
	      between port1 and	port2.

	      Any of the above port or port range expressions can be prepended
	      with the keywords, tcp or	udp, as	in:
		   tcp src port	port
	      which matches only tcp packets whose source port is port.

       less length
	      True if the packet has a length less than	or  equal  to  length.
	      This is equivalent to:
		   len <= length.

       greater length
	      True if the packet has a length greater than or equal to length.
	      This is equivalent to:
		   len >= length.

       ip proto	protocol
	      True if the packet is an IPv4 packet (see	 ip(4P))  of  protocol
	      type  protocol.	Protocol  can  be a number or one of the names
	      icmp, icmp6, igmp, igrp, pim, ah,	esp, vrrp, udp,	or tcp.	  Note
	      that  the	 identifiers  tcp, udp,	and icmp are also keywords and
	      must be escaped via backslash (\).   Note	 that  this  primitive
	      does not chase the protocol header chain.

       ip6 proto protocol
	      True  if the packet is an	IPv6 packet of protocol	type protocol.
	      Note that	this primitive does  not  chase	 the  protocol	header
	      chain.

       proto protocol
	      True  if	the  packet is an IPv4 or IPv6 packet of protocol type
	      protocol.	 Note that this	primitive does not chase the  protocol
	      header chain.

       tcp, udp, icmp
	      Abbreviations for:
		   proto p
	      where p is one of	the above protocols.

       ip6 protochain protocol
	      True  if the packet is IPv6 packet, and contains protocol	header
	      with type	protocol in its	protocol header	chain.	For example,
		   ip6 protochain 6
	      matches any IPv6 packet with TCP protocol	header in the protocol
	      header  chain.  The packet may contain, for example, authentica-
	      tion header, routing header, or hop-by-hop  option  header,  be-
	      tween  IPv6 header and TCP header.  The BPF code emitted by this
	      primitive	is complex and cannot be optimized by  the  BPF	 opti-
	      mizer  code,  and	is not supported by filter engines in the ker-
	      nel, so this can be somewhat slow, and may cause more packets to
	      be dropped.

       ip protochain protocol
	      Equivalent to ip6	protochain protocol, but this is for IPv4.

       protochain protocol
	      True  if	the  packet is an IPv4 or IPv6 packet of protocol type
	      protocol.	 Note that this	primitive chases the  protocol	header
	      chain.

       ether broadcast
	      True  if	the packet is an Ethernet broadcast packet.  The ether
	      keyword is optional.

       ip broadcast
	      True if the packet is an IPv4 broadcast packet.  It  checks  for
	      both  the	 all-zeroes  and  all-ones  broadcast conventions, and
	      looks up the subnet mask on the interface	on which  the  capture
	      is being done.

	      If  the subnet mask of the interface on which the	capture	is be-
	      ing done is not available, either	because	the interface on which
	      capture  is  being done has no netmask or	because	the capture is
	      being done on the	Linux "any" interface, which  can  capture  on
	      more than	one interface, this check will not work	correctly.

       ether multicast
	      True  if	the packet is an Ethernet multicast packet.  The ether
	      keyword is optional.  This is shorthand for `ether[0] & 1	!= 0'.

       ip multicast
	      True if the packet is an IPv4 multicast packet.

       ip6 multicast
	      True if the packet is an IPv6 multicast packet.

       ether proto protocol
	      True if the packet is of ether type protocol.  Protocol can be a
	      number or	one of the names ip, ip6, arp, rarp, atalk, aarp, dec-
	      net, sca,	lat, mopdl, moprc, iso,	stp, ipx,  or  netbeui.	  Note
	      these  identifiers  are  also  keywords  and must	be escaped via
	      backslash	(\).

	      [In the case of FDDI (e.g., `fddi	proto arp'), Token Ring	(e.g.,
	      `tr  proto  arp'),  and  IEEE  802.11 wireless LANS (e.g., `wlan
	      proto arp'), for most of those protocols,	the protocol identifi-
	      cation  comes  from the 802.2 Logical Link Control (LLC) header,
	      which is usually layered on top of  the  FDDI,  Token  Ring,  or
	      802.11 header.

	      When  filtering  for  most  protocol  identifiers	on FDDI, Token
	      Ring, or 802.11, the filter checks only the protocol ID field of
	      an  LLC  header  in so-called SNAP format	with an	Organizational
	      Unit Identifier (OUI) of 0x000000, for encapsulated Ethernet; it
	      doesn't  check  whether the packet is in SNAP format with	an OUI
	      of 0x000000.  The	exceptions are:

	      iso    the filter	checks the DSAP	 (Destination  Service	Access
		     Point)  and  SSAP (Source Service Access Point) fields of
		     the LLC header;

	      stp and netbeui
		     the filter	checks the DSAP	of the LLC header;

	      atalk  the filter	checks for a SNAP-format packet	with an	OUI of
		     0x080007 and the AppleTalk	etype.

	      In  the  case  of	 Ethernet, the filter checks the Ethernet type
	      field for	most of	those protocols.  The exceptions are:

	      iso, stp,	and netbeui
		     the filter	checks for an 802.3 frame and then checks  the
		     LLC header	as it does for FDDI, Token Ring, and 802.11;

	      atalk  the filter	checks both for	the AppleTalk etype in an Eth-
		     ernet frame and for a SNAP-format packet as it  does  for
		     FDDI, Token Ring, and 802.11;

	      aarp   the  filter  checks for the AppleTalk ARP etype in	either
		     an	Ethernet frame or an 802.2 SNAP	frame with an  OUI  of
		     0x000000;

	      ipx    the filter	checks for the IPX etype in an Ethernet	frame,
		     the IPX DSAP in the LLC  header,  the  802.3-with-no-LLC-
		     header  encapsulation of IPX, and the IPX etype in	a SNAP
		     frame.

       ip, ip6,	arp, rarp, atalk, aarp,	decnet,	iso, stp, ipx, netbeui
	      Abbreviations for:
		   ether proto p
	      where p is one of	the above protocols.

       lat, moprc, mopdl
	      Abbreviations for:
		   ether proto p
	      where p is one of	the above protocols.  Note that	not all	appli-
	      cations  using  pcap(3) currently	know how to parse these	proto-
	      cols.

       decnet src host
	      True if the DECNET source	address	is host, which may be  an  ad-
	      dress  of	 the  form ``10.123'', or a DECNET host	name.  [DECNET
	      host name	support	is only	available on ULTRIX systems  that  are
	      configured to run	DECNET.]

       decnet dst host
	      True if the DECNET destination address is	host.

       decnet host host
	      True if either the DECNET	source or destination address is host.

       llc    True if the packet has an	802.2 LLC header.  This	includes:

	      Ethernet	packets	 with  a length	field rather than a type field
	      that aren't raw NetWare-over-802.3 packets;

	      IEEE 802.11 data packets;

	      Token Ring packets (no check is done for LLC frames);

	      FDDI packets (no check is	done for LLC frames);

	      LLC-encapsulated ATM packets, for	SunATM on Solaris.

       llc type
	      True if the packet has an	802.2 LLC header and has the specified
	      type.  type can be one of:

	      i	     Information (I) PDUs

	      s	     Supervisory (S) PDUs

	      u	     Unnumbered	(U) PDUs

	      rr     Receiver Ready (RR) S PDUs

	      rnr    Receiver Not Ready	(RNR) S	PDUs

	      rej    Reject (REJ) S PDUs

	      ui     Unnumbered	Information (UI) U PDUs

	      ua     Unnumbered	Acknowledgment (UA) U PDUs

	      disc   Disconnect	(DISC) U PDUs

	      sabme  Set Asynchronous Balanced Mode Extended (SABME) U PDUs

	      test   Test (TEST) U PDUs

	      xid    Exchange Identification (XID) U PDUs

	      frmr   Frame Reject (FRMR) U PDUs

       inbound
	      Packet  was  received  by	the host performing the	capture	rather
	      than being sent by that host.  This is only supported  for  cer-
	      tain  link-layer	types,	such  as SLIP and the ``cooked'' Linux
	      capture mode used	for the	``any''	device and for some other  de-
	      vice types.

       outbound
	      Packet  was  sent	by the host performing the capture rather than
	      being received by	that host.  This is only supported for certain
	      link-layer  types, such as SLIP and the ``cooked'' Linux capture
	      mode used	for the	``any''	 device	 and  for  some	 other	device
	      types.

       ifname interface
	      True  if	the packet was logged as coming	from the specified in-
	      terface (applies only to packets logged by  OpenBSD's  or	 Free-
	      BSD's pf(4)).

       on interface
	      Synonymous with the ifname modifier.

       rnr num
	      True  if the packet was logged as	matching the specified PF rule
	      number (applies only to packets logged by	OpenBSD's or FreeBSD's
	      pf(4)).

       rulenum num
	      Synonymous with the rnr modifier.

       reason code
	      True if the packet was logged with the specified PF reason code.
	      The known	codes are: match, bad-offset, fragment,	short, normal-
	      ize,  and	memory (applies	only to	packets	logged by OpenBSD's or
	      FreeBSD's	pf(4)).

       rset name
	      True if the packet was logged as matching	the specified PF rule-
	      set  name	of an anchored ruleset (applies	only to	packets	logged
	      by OpenBSD's or FreeBSD's	pf(4)).

       ruleset name
	      Synonymous with the rset modifier.

       srnr num
	      True if the packet was logged as matching	the specified PF  rule
	      number of	an anchored ruleset (applies only to packets logged by
	      OpenBSD's	or FreeBSD's pf(4)).

       subrulenum num
	      Synonymous with the srnr modifier.

       action act
	      True if PF took the specified action when	the packet was logged.
	      Known  actions  are:  pass and block and,	with later versions of
	      pf(4), nat, rdr, binat and scrub (applies	only to	packets	logged
	      by OpenBSD's or FreeBSD's	pf(4)).

       wlan ra ehost
	      True  if	the  IEEE 802.11 RA is ehost.  The RA field is used in
	      all frames except	for management frames.

       wlan ta ehost
	      True if the IEEE 802.11 TA is ehost.  The	TA field  is  used  in
	      all  frames except for management	frames and CTS (Clear To Send)
	      and ACK (Acknowledgment) control frames.

       wlan addr1 ehost
	      True if the first	IEEE 802.11 address is ehost.

       wlan addr2 ehost
	      True if the second IEEE 802.11 address, if  present,  is	ehost.
	      The  second  address  field is used in all frames	except for CTS
	      (Clear To	Send) and ACK (Acknowledgment) control frames.

       wlan addr3 ehost
	      True if the third	IEEE 802.11 address,  if  present,  is	ehost.
	      The  third  address field	is used	in management and data frames,
	      but not in control frames.

       wlan addr4 ehost
	      True if the fourth IEEE 802.11 address, if  present,  is	ehost.
	      The  fourth address field	is only	used for WDS (Wireless Distri-
	      bution System) frames.

       type wlan_type
	      True if  the  IEEE  802.11  frame	 type  matches	the  specified
	      wlan_type.  Valid	wlan_types are:	mgt, ctl and data.

       type wlan_type subtype wlan_subtype
	      True  if	the  IEEE  802.11  frame  type	matches	 the specified
	      wlan_type	and frame subtype matches the specified	wlan_subtype.

	      If the specified wlan_type is mgt, then valid wlan_subtypes are:
	      assoc-req,  assoc-resp,  reassoc-req,  reassoc-resp,  probe-req,
	      probe-resp, beacon, atim,	disassoc, auth and deauth.

	      If the specified wlan_type is ctl, then valid wlan_subtypes are:
	      ps-poll, rts, cts, ack, cf-end and cf-end-ack.

	      If  the  specified  wlan_type  is	data, then valid wlan_subtypes
	      are: data, data-cf-ack,  data-cf-poll,  data-cf-ack-poll,	 null,
	      cf-ack,  cf-poll,	 cf-ack-poll,  qos-data, qos-data-cf-ack, qos-
	      data-cf-poll, qos-data-cf-ack-poll, qos, qos-cf-poll and qos-cf-
	      ack-poll.

       subtype wlan_subtype
	      True  if	the  IEEE  802.11  frame subtype matches the specified
	      wlan_subtype and frame has  the  type  to	 which	the  specified
	      wlan_subtype belongs.

       dir dir
	      True  if	the  IEEE 802.11 frame direction matches the specified
	      dir.  Valid directions are: nods,	tods, fromds, dstods, or a nu-
	      meric value.

       vlan [vlan_id]
	      True  if the packet is an	IEEE 802.1Q VLAN packet.  If [vlan_id]
	      is specified, only true if the packet has	the specified vlan_id.
	      Note  that  the  first  vlan  keyword  encountered in expression
	      changes the decoding offsets for the remainder of	expression  on
	      the  assumption  that  the  packet  is  a	VLAN packet.  The vlan
	      [vlan_id]	expression may be used more than once,	to  filter  on
	      VLAN  hierarchies.   Each	 use of	that expression	increments the
	      filter offsets by	4.

	      For example:
		   vlan	100 && vlan 200
	      filters on VLAN 200 encapsulated within VLAN 100,	and
		   vlan	&& vlan	300 && ip
	      filters IPv4 protocols encapsulated  in  VLAN  300  encapsulated
	      within any higher	order VLAN.

       mpls [label_num]
	      True  if the packet is an	MPLS packet.  If [label_num] is	speci-
	      fied, only true is the packet has	the specified label_num.  Note
	      that  the	 first	mpls keyword encountered in expression changes
	      the decoding offsets for the remainder of	expression on the  as-
	      sumption	that the packet	is a MPLS-encapsulated IP packet.  The
	      mpls [label_num] expression may be used more than	once, to  fil-
	      ter on MPLS hierarchies.	Each use of that expression increments
	      the filter offsets by 4.

	      For example:
		   mpls	100000 && mpls 1024
	      filters packets with an outer label of 100000 and	an inner label
	      of 1024, and
		   mpls	&& mpls	1024 &&	host 192.9.200.1
	      filters  packets	to  or from 192.9.200.1	with an	inner label of
	      1024 and any outer label.

       pppoed True if the packet is a PPP-over-Ethernet	Discovery packet (Eth-
	      ernet type 0x8863).

       pppoes [session_id]
	      True if the packet is a PPP-over-Ethernet	Session	packet (Ether-
	      net type 0x8864).	 If [session_id] is specified,	only  true  if
	      the  packet  has	the specified session_id.  Note	that the first
	      pppoes keyword encountered in expression	changes	 the  decoding
	      offsets  for  the	remainder of expression	on the assumption that
	      the packet is a PPPoE session packet.

	      For example:
		   pppoes 0x27 && ip
	      filters IPv4 protocols encapsulated in PPPoE session id 0x27.

       geneve [vni]
	      True if the packet is a Geneve packet (UDP port 6081). If	 [vni]
	      is  specified,  only  true  if the packet	has the	specified vni.
	      Note that	when the geneve	keyword	is encountered in  expression,
	      it  changes the decoding offsets for the remainder of expression
	      on the assumption	that the packet	is a Geneve packet.

	      For example:
		   geneve 0xb && ip
	      filters IPv4 protocols encapsulated in Geneve with VNI 0xb. This
	      will match both IP directly encapsulated in Geneve as well as IP
	      contained	inside an Ethernet frame.

       iso proto protocol
	      True if the packet is an OSI packet of protocol  type  protocol.
	      Protocol	can  be	 a  number  or one of the names	clnp, esis, or
	      isis.

       clnp, esis, isis
	      Abbreviations for:
		   iso proto p
	      where p is one of	the above protocols.

       l1, l2, iih, lsp, snp, csnp, psnp
	      Abbreviations for	IS-IS PDU types.

       vpi n  True if the packet is an ATM packet, for SunATM on Solaris, with
	      a	virtual	path identifier	of n.

       vci n  True if the packet is an ATM packet, for SunATM on Solaris, with
	      a	virtual	channel	identifier of n.

       lane   True if the packet is an ATM packet, for SunATM on Solaris,  and
	      is an ATM	LANE packet.  Note that	the first lane keyword encoun-
	      tered in expression changes the tests done in the	 remainder  of
	      expression  on  the  assumption that the packet is either	a LANE
	      emulated Ethernet	packet or a LANE LE Control packet.   If  lane
	      isn't  specified,	 the  tests are	done under the assumption that
	      the packet is an LLC-encapsulated	packet.

       oamf4s True if the packet is an ATM packet, for SunATM on Solaris,  and
	      is a segment OAM F4 flow cell (VPI=0 & VCI=3).

       oamf4e True  if the packet is an	ATM packet, for	SunATM on Solaris, and
	      is an end-to-end OAM F4 flow cell	(VPI=0 & VCI=4).

       oamf4  True if the packet is an ATM packet, for SunATM on Solaris,  and
	      is  a  segment  or end-to-end OAM	F4 flow	cell (VPI=0 & (VCI=3 |
	      VCI=4)).

       oam    True if the packet is an ATM packet, for SunATM on Solaris,  and
	      is  a  segment  or end-to-end OAM	F4 flow	cell (VPI=0 & (VCI=3 |
	      VCI=4)).

       metac  True if the packet is an ATM packet, for SunATM on Solaris,  and
	      is on a meta signaling circuit (VPI=0 & VCI=1).

       bcc    True  if the packet is an	ATM packet, for	SunATM on Solaris, and
	      is on a broadcast	signaling circuit (VPI=0 & VCI=2).

       sc     True if the packet is an ATM packet, for SunATM on Solaris,  and
	      is on a signaling	circuit	(VPI=0 & VCI=5).

       ilmic  True  if the packet is an	ATM packet, for	SunATM on Solaris, and
	      is on an ILMI circuit (VPI=0 & VCI=16).

       connectmsg
	      True if the packet is an ATM packet, for SunATM on Solaris,  and
	      is  on  a	signaling circuit and is a Q.2931 Setup, Call Proceed-
	      ing, Connect, Connect Ack, Release, or Release Done message.

       metaconnect
	      True if the packet is an ATM packet, for SunATM on Solaris,  and
	      is  on a meta signaling circuit and is a Q.2931 Setup, Call Pro-
	      ceeding, Connect,	Release, or Release Done message.

       expr relop expr
	      True if the relation holds, where	relop is one of	>, <, >=,  <=,
	      =,  !=, and expr is an arithmetic	expression composed of integer
	      constants	(expressed in standard C syntax),  the	normal	binary
	      operators	 [+,  -, *, /, %, &, |,	^, <<, >>], a length operator,
	      and special packet data accessors.  Note	that  all  comparisons
	      are  unsigned,  so  that,	for example, 0x80000000	and 0xffffffff
	      are > 0.

	      The % and	^ operators are	currently only supported for filtering
	      in  the kernel on	Linux with 3.7 and later kernels; on all other
	      systems, if those	operators are used, filtering will be done  in
	      user mode, which will increase the overhead of capturing packets
	      and may cause more packets to be dropped.

	      To access	data inside the	packet,	use the	following syntax:
		   proto [ expr	: size ]
	      Proto is one of ether, fddi, tr, wlan, ppp, slip,	link, ip, arp,
	      rarp,  tcp,  udp,	icmp, ip6 or radio, and	indicates the protocol
	      layer for	the index operation.  (ether,  fddi,  wlan,  tr,  ppp,
	      slip  and	 link all refer	to the link layer. radio refers	to the
	      "radio header" added to some 802.11 captures.)  Note  that  tcp,
	      udp and other upper-layer	protocol types only apply to IPv4, not
	      IPv6 (this will be fixed in the future).	The byte offset, rela-
	      tive to the indicated protocol layer, is given by	expr.  Size is
	      optional and indicates the number	of bytes in the	field  of  in-
	      terest; it can be	either one, two, or four, and defaults to one.
	      The length operator, indicated by	the  keyword  len,  gives  the
	      length of	the packet.

	      For  example, `ether[0] &	1 != 0'	catches	all multicast traffic.
	      The expression `ip[0] & 0xf != 5'	catches	all IPv4 packets  with
	      options.	The expression `ip[6:2]	& 0x1fff = 0' catches only un-
	      fragmented IPv4 datagrams	and frag zero of fragmented IPv4 data-
	      grams.   This check is implicitly	applied	to the tcp and udp in-
	      dex operations.  For instance, tcp[0]  always  means  the	 first
	      byte of the TCP header, and never	means the first	byte of	an in-
	      tervening	fragment.

	      Some offsets and field values may	be expressed as	 names	rather
	      than  as	numeric	 values.   The following protocol header field
	      offsets are available: icmptype  (ICMP  type  field),  icmp6type
	      (ICMP v6 type field) icmpcode (ICMP code field), icmp6code (ICMP
	      v6 code field), and tcpflags (TCP	flags field).

	      The following ICMP type field values are available: icmp-echore-
	      ply,  icmp-unreach, icmp-sourcequench, icmp-redirect, icmp-echo,
	      icmp-routeradvert,  icmp-routersolicit,	icmp-timxceed,	 icmp-
	      paramprob,  icmp-tstamp,	icmp-tstampreply, icmp-ireq, icmp-ire-
	      qreply, icmp-maskreq, icmp-maskreply.

	      The following ICMPv6  type  fields  are  available:  icmp6-echo,
	      icmp6-echoreply,	icmp6-multicastlistenerquery,  icmp6-multicas-
	      tlistenerreportv1, icmp6-multicastlistenerdone,  icmp6-routerso-
	      licit, icmp6-routeradvert, icmp6-neighborsolicit,	icmp6-neighbo-
	      radvert, icmp6-redirect,	icmp6-routerrenum,  icmp6-nodeinforma-
	      tionquery, icmp6-nodeinformationresponse,	icmp6-ineighbordiscov-
	      erysolicit, icmp6-ineighbordiscoveryadvert,  icmp6-multicastlis-
	      tenerreportv2, icmp6-homeagentdiscoveryrequest, icmp6-homeagent-
	      discoveryreply, icmp6-mobileprefixsolicit, icmp6-mobileprefixad-
	      vert,  icmp6-certpathsolicit, icmp6-certpathadvert, icmp6-multi-
	      castrouteradvert,	icmp6-multicastroutersolicit,  icmp6-multicas-
	      trouterterm.

	      The  following  TCP  flags  field	values are available: tcp-fin,
	      tcp-syn, tcp-rst,	tcp-push, tcp-ack, tcp-urg, tcp-ece, tcp-cwr.

       Primitives may be combined using:

	      A	parenthesized group of primitives and operators.

	      Negation (`!' or `not').

	      Concatenation (`&&' or `and').

	      Alternation (`||'	or `or').

       Negation	has highest precedence.	 Alternation  and  concatenation  have
       equal  precedence  and associate	left to	right.	Note that explicit and
       tokens, not juxtaposition, are now required for concatenation.

       If an identifier	is given without a keyword, the	most recent keyword is
       assumed.	 For example,
	    not	host vs	and ace
       is short	for
	    not	host vs	and host ace
       which should not	be confused with
	    not	( host vs or ace )

EXAMPLES
       To select all packets arriving at or departing from sundown:
	      host sundown

       To select traffic between helios	and either hot or ace:
	      host helios and \( hot or	ace \)

       To select all IP	packets	between	ace and	any host except	helios:
	      ip host ace and not helios

       To select all traffic between local hosts and hosts at Berkeley:
	      net ucb-ether

       To select all ftp traffic through internet gateway snup:
	      gateway snup and (port ftp or ftp-data)

       To select traffic neither sourced from nor destined for local hosts (if
       you gateway to one other	net, this stuff	should never make it onto your
       local net).
	      ip and not net localnet

       To  select  the start and end packets (the SYN and FIN packets) of each
       TCP conversation	that involves a	non-local host.
	      tcp[tcpflags] & (tcp-syn|tcp-fin)	!= 0 and not src and dst net localnet

       To select all IPv4 HTTP packets to and from port	80,  i.e.  print  only
       packets	that  contain  data, not, for example, SYN and FIN packets and
       ACK-only	packets.  (IPv6	is left	as an exercise for the reader.)
	      tcp port 80 and (((ip[2:2] - ((ip[0]&0xf)<<2)) - ((tcp[12]&0xf0)>>2)) != 0)

       To select IP packets longer than	576 bytes sent through gateway snup:
	      gateway snup and ip[2:2] > 576

       To select IP broadcast or multicast packets that	were not sent via Eth-
       ernet broadcast or multicast:
	      ether[0] & 1 = 0 and ip[16] >= 224

       To  select  all	ICMP packets that are not echo requests/replies	(i.e.,
       not ping	packets):
	      icmp[icmptype] !=	icmp-echo and icmp[icmptype] !=	icmp-echoreply

SEE ALSO
       pcap(3)

BUGS
       To report a security issue  please  send	 an  e-mail  to	 security@tcp-
       dump.org.

       To  report  bugs	and other problems, contribute patches,	request	a fea-
       ture, provide generic feedback etc please see the file CONTRIBUTING  in
       the libpcap source tree root.

       Filter  expressions  on	fields	other than those in Token Ring headers
       will not	correctly handle source-routed Token Ring packets.

       Filter expressions on fields other than those in	 802.11	 headers  will
       not  correctly  handle  802.11 data packets with	both To	DS and From DS
       set.

       ip6 proto should	chase header chain, but	at this	moment	it  does  not.
       ip6 protochain is supplied for this behavior.

       Arithmetic  expression  against	transport  layer headers, like tcp[0],
       does not	work against IPv6 packets.  It only looks at IPv4 packets.

				5 November 2017			PCAP-FILTER(7)

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