tcpdump now shows interface names in its output, finally

Mon 27 March 2023 in Linux

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Actually it is not news - it happened with the new 4.99 tcpdump version starting 2 years ago. But most binary distributions still lack this version. So, I had to install it from sources even on the RHEL 9, the newest version. The steps are simple:

Download sources: wget https://www.tcpdump.org/release/tcpdump-4.99.3.tar.gz
Install, if not already, libpcap headers: yum install libpcap-devel
Compile the tcpdump from source:

tar -zxvf tcpdump-4.99.3.tar
cd tcpdump-4.99.3/
./configure
make; make install

tcpdump shows interface names

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