How to capture packets using wireshark
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Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer.
It lets you capture and interactively browse the traffic running on a computer network. more about Wireshark
Install
To install wireshark put this command to Terminal:
yum install wireshark
Usage
After that you can use command:
tethereal -i eth0 -w /home/capture.pcap
To save a dump of packets.
Packets will be saved to directory /home/capture.pcap
You can send captured file capture.pcap from your server and open with Wireshark GUI and analyse the packets.
You can analyse network packets on real time on server using command:
tshark
More options with command tshark you can find find here.