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How to create capture filter based on partial MAC address?

asked 2018-03-12 22:13:54 +0000

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I want to create a capture filter based on a partial MAC address. For example, I want to capture all traffic from devices with MAC address containing 00:0C:22. I have been using "ether host xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx" but this syntax requires a full MAC address-- it does not work with a partial MAC. What is the correct filter to use in this case? Thanks!

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answered 2018-03-13 03:21:28 +0000

Jim Aragon gravatar image

updated 2018-03-13 03:23:39 +0000

You said, "I want to capture all traffic from devices with MAC address containing 00:0C:22."

You probably can't create a capture filter for MAC addresses containing 00:0C:22 anywhere in the MAC address fields. But if you know where in the MAC address field those three bytes will be, you can use a byte-offset capture filter.

To capture packets where either the source or destination MAC address starts with 00:0C:22:

(ether [0:4] & 0xffffff00 = 0x000c2200) or (ether [6:4] & 0xffffff00 = 0x000c2200)

In the capture filter expressions "ether[0:4]" and "ether[6:4]", 0 and 6 are the starting bytes for the destination MAC address field and the source MAC address field respectively, and 4 is the number of bytes to examine. Unfortunately, you want to examine three bytes, but you can only put 1, 2, or 4 after the colon, so three is not a valid value. However, the "& 0xffffff00" expression masks off the fourth byte.

You could also just examine each byte individually:

(ether[0]=0x0 and ether[1]=0x0c and ether[2]=0x22) or (ether[6]=0x0 and ether[7]=0x0c and ether[8]=0x22)

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I found out that it's to be used as a capture- instead of a display-filter under Capture > Capture Filters....

Starhowl gravatar imageStarhowl ( 2022-11-02 16:54:11 +0000 )edit
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answered 2018-03-12 22:36:15 +0000

Dan gravatar image

MAC Address: bc:05:43:41:28:06

Filter first 3 hex eth.addr[0:3] == bc:05:43

Filter last 2 hex eth.addr[4:2] == 28:06

and so on..

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These are display filters so they will not work as capture filters due to the syntax difference.

Something like this is close:

ether[0:4]==0xdc53606f || ether[6:4]==0xdc53606f

This is for an Intel card, and should get anything sent or received. However, it is not an answer because you wanted three bytes as a match; only an even number of bytes will work here. For example, ether[0:3] will not work, but ether[0:2] or ether[0:4] will.

Bob Jones gravatar imageBob Jones ( 2018-03-12 23:37:33 +0000 )edit

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