Re: Please List Your Open Ports

On 3/17/25 2:09 PM, Farley Flud wrote:

On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:34:27 -0500, Physfitfreak wrote:
 

>
Running tcpdump gives me this error:
>
       tcpdump: eno1: You don't have permission to capture on that device
>

 You must execute tcpdump as the root user.
 On my machine I am always the root user, but the stupid distros have their
own ridiculous security philosophy.  I believe that their asinine command
workaround is this:
 sudo tcpdump
 Also, read the tcpdump man page or search for tcpdump web pages.
There is a LOT that the command can do.
    

Ok, I ran it and had it write the result (a large file) to a file. Checking the file, I could not understand any of the output which were in chronological order. I spotted a few "Amazon" words, so I thought perhaps most of the file is about cookies activities, etc. So I ran the bleachbit to clear cookies up.
Then I ran tcpdump again and wrote output in a file. The file looks the same having stuff like: (part of the entry for second 20 of 3:51 pm today)
15:51:20.751730 IP6 _gateway > hydrogen-OptiPlex-7050: ICMP6, neighbor solicitation, who has hydrogen-OptiPlex-7050, length 32
15:51:20.751816 IP6 hydrogen-OptiPlex-7050 > _gateway: ICMP6, neighbor advertisement, tgt is hydrogen-OptiPlex-7050, length 24
15:51:20.767810 IP6 _gateway > hydrogen-OptiPlex-7050: ICMP6, neighbor solicitation, who has hydrogen-OptiPlex-7050, length 32
15:51:20.767897 IP6 hydrogen-OptiPlex-7050 > _gateway: ICMP6, neighbor advertisement, tgt is hydrogen-OptiPlex-7050, length 24
15:51:20.799787 IP6 _gateway > hydrogen-OptiPlex-7050: ICMP6, neighbor solicitation, who has hydrogen-OptiPlex-7050, length 32
15:51:20.799872 IP6 hydrogen-OptiPlex-7050 > _gateway: ICMP6, neighbor advertisement, tgt is hydrogen-OptiPlex-7050, length 24
15:51:20.806917 IP6 hydrogen-OptiPlex-7050 > homeportal: ICMP6, neighbor solicitation, who has homeportal, length 32
15:51:20.806977 IP6 hydrogen-OptiPlex-7050 > _gateway: ICMP6, neighbor solicitation, who has _gateway, length 32
15:51:20.807765 IP6 homeportal > hydrogen-OptiPlex-7050: ICMP6, neighbor advertisement, tgt is homeportal, length 24
15:51:20.808234 IP6 _gateway > hydrogen-OptiPlex-7050: ICMP6, neighbor advertisement, tgt is _gateway, length 24
15:51:20.854022 e0:22:04:56:89:3b (oui Unknown) > Broadcast, ethertype Unknown (0x7373), length 121:
0x0000:  1211 0000 0043 1fb2 05dd f137 e122 3905  .....C.....7."9.
0x0010:  ef58 d67c 1e40 a4ae bb60 6ad8 2f7d eecd  .X.|.@...`j./}..
0x0020:  43c3 ac98 e8a4 0000 0201 8003 06e0 2204  C.............".
0x0030:  5689 3b04 0104 0701 011b 0100 0806 e022  V.;............"
0x0040:  0456 893b 0901 020e 1800 0000 0000 0000  .V.;............
0x0050:  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0x0060:  0019 0889 caa5 4969 ebf2 04              ......Ii...
If you can make sense of it you're welcome to comment :)