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Article Id 195904
Description
How to capture data from a single vendor's OUI

Scope

KB Article Type : Troubleshooting

Related Products: All Controllers

Related Software Versions: all

Keywords  : tshark, capture-packets, trace, capture, sniff


Solution
It is not uncommon where a problem that effects a single type device, i.e. Ascom phones. The following capture filter will capture only packets from a vendor, in the example Realtek.

The commands below will capture DHCP traffic from all Realtek nics on the meru interface.

Capture for an OUI from root:

tshark "ether [0:4] & 0xffffff00 = 0x5cac4c00" or "ether [5:4] & 0xffffff00 = 0x5cac4c00" and port 67 -i meru -w filename

Capture for an OUI from CLI

capture-packets "ether [0:4] & 0xffffff00 = 0x5cac4c00" or "ether [5:4] & 0xffffff00 = 0x5cac4c00" and port 67 -i meru -w filename

To explain the format

ether[0:4] – says we're looking at the first 4 hex values under the Ehernet header.

& 0xffffff00 is a mask saying match on the first 3 hex values.

= 0x5cac4c00 is what to match on.

That covers the source address. Here the or connector was used to define the destination address [5:4] and the 'and' connector to match on port 67 (bootp).





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