https://github.com/nicolaka/netshoot # Container's Network Namespace: If you're having networking issues with your application's container, you can launch netshoot with that container's network namespace like this: docker run -it --net container: nicolaka/netshoot # Host's Network Namespace: If you think the networking issue is on the host itself, you can launch netshoot with that host's network namespace: docker run -it --net host nicolaka/netshoot # Launching netshoot with NET_ADMIN and CAP_NET_RAW capabilities. Capturing packets on eth0 with icmp docker run --rm --cap-add=NET_ADMIN --cap-add=NET_RAW -it nicolaka/netshoot termshark -i eth0 icmp # Capturing with “tcpdump” for viewing with Wireshark inside netshoot # ------------------------------------------------------------------- docker run -it --net container: nicolaka/netshoot # launch netshoot with container's network namespace tcpdump -i -s 65535 -w # capture with tcpdump docker cp :/file/path/within/container /host/path/target # copy dump file from netshoot to host # Example of tcpdump capture: (using two terminals) # ------------------------------------------------- # launch netshoot with plex's network namespace from docker shell docker run -it --net container:plex nicolaka/netshoot # run tcpdump within netshoot container: tcpdump -i eth0 -s 65535 -w /tmp/plexdump.cap # stop the dump ctrl-c # to get netshoot container name/id; using other terminal, in docker shell, enter: docker ps | grep "netshoot" # result of above; first item is containerId, last item is container name: 0c3986714b3f nicolaka/netshoot "zsh" 35 minutes ago Up 35 minutes exciting_jang # copy file to current folder docker cp exciting_jang:/tmp/plexdump.cap ./ # you can now exit from netshoot in first terminal