Scenario Playbook

Real-world capturing playbooks that mirror our README highlights and automated tests. Each scenario spells out when you’d use ptcpdump and the exact command to run.

Example Library

Loopback ICMP Smoke Test

Attach to an Existing SSH Session

Launch and Trace a Curl Run

Find Outbound HTTP Callers

Watch Containers Reach Out

Identify DNS Query Processes

Filter Traffic by Kubernetes Pod

Grab Packets in a Fresh Network Namespace

Baseline SYN Capture

Parent Process Insight

Filter by Process Name

Filter by Process ID

Read an Existing PcapNG

Write a PcapNG for Later

Stream Capture to Stdout

Inspect ARP Probes

Capture Remote ICMP

Trace Traffic on a TUN Interface

Capture Across Multiple NetNS

Detect Newly Created NetNS

Launch Curl Against a Domain

Inspect NATed Container Traffic

Rotate Capture Files by Size

Rotate with File Count Limit

Docker Integration Capture

Containerd Integration Capture

Kubernetes Integration Capture

Backend Matrix Coverage