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Yes, but before I used it I assumed that its scope was pretty much limited to what you just mentioned. Instead it can operate on most protocols both above and below layer 4, and it is incredibly useful as a traffic capture tool to produce a
.pcapon a remote headless machine which you can then load into Wireshark. The "dump" part is the interesting one, not the "tcp" ;)