ngrep: ngrep (network grep) ngrep: ngrep: ngrep strives to provide most of GNU grep's common features, ngrep: applying them to the network layer. ngrep is a pcap-aware tool that ngrep: will allow you to specify extended regular or hexadecimal expressions ngrep: to match against data payloads of packets. It currently recognizes ngrep: IPv4/6, TCP, UDP, ICMPv4/6, IGMP and Raw across Ethernet, PPP, SLIP, ngrep: FDDI, Token Ring and null interfaces, and understands BPF filter ngrep: logic in the same fashion as more common packet sniffing tools, ngrep: such as tcpdump and snoop. ngrep: