Questions tagged [wireshark]

The network protocol analyzer developed and maintained by the Wireshark Foundation

Summary

Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer or packet analyzer. The software can be downloaded for free, supports multiple platforms and is open source. It allows the user to inspect multiple protocols via a live capture or offline saved sessions.

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Mac Homebrew and Wireshark

I've installed Wireshark(.org) using Homebrew. brew install wireshark at the end the script says ==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/wireshark/1.2.7 --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-wireshark ==> make ==> make install ==> Caveats We…
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How can I see 127.0.0.1 traffic on Windows using Wireshark?

Every time I try to filter to just show a specific IP address, I get an error indicating that it is "not an interface or a field." I have no idea what that means. Furthermore, I don’t really see any localhost traffic in the logs anyway. How can I…
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How to set up wireshark to run without root on Debian?

I'm trying to use wireshark on a Debian machine, but when I run it with my non-root user account, it doesn't detect any network interface. I also tried running wireshark as root, but wireshark tells me this method is insecure. I also read the FAQ…
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Show only HTTP traffic in Wireshark

How can I filter out traffic that is not HTTP in Wireshark, so that it shows me only HTTP traffic, but not, TCP, DNS, SSDP, etc.
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Filter in Wireshark for TLS's Server Name Indication field

Does wireshark have a filter for TLS's Server Name Indication field?
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Capture traffic for specific application

I have an application which communicates with some server. I want to know what the IP of this server is. How can I capture all the traffic from a specific application and not just all the traffic like Wireshark does?
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What's all this deploy.akamaitechnologies.com traffic?

I happened to do a tcpdump while leaving my Mac idle, and when I came back after a mere half-hour there were something like 5000 packets involving deploy.akamaitechnologies.com, in which my computer was asking it on port TCP 443 for something, and…
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wireshark usb traces explanations

I am trying to reverse engineer an usb (HID) device and cannot really figure out how what I see on wireshark (usbmon + wireshark on linux, or windows) relates to the usb protocol?. I have looked at the usb protocol from www.usb.org. What does…
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SSL protocol seems to be missing in Wireshark

SSL protocol seems to be missing for me. It doesn't show up in the preferences menu and Wireshark doesn't capture any SSL packets from any program I try. I also had a failed handshake trying to just setup a basic OpenSSL server, but I'm not exactly…
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Wireshark WPA 4-way handshake

From this wiki page: WPA and WPA2 use keys derived from an EAPOL handshake to encrypt traffic. Unless all four handshake packets are present for the session you're trying to decrypt, Wireshark won't be able to decrypt the traffic. You can use the…
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How do I decrypt WPA2 encrypted packets using Wireshark?

I am trying to decrypt my WLAN data with Wireshark. I have already read and tried eveything on this page but without any success (well, I tried the example dump on that page and succeeded, but I fail with my own packets). I caught the four-way…
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How do I return just the Http header from tshark?

I'm using tshark to sniff my packets and I'm only concerned with the http header (preferably in the form its sent, but I'll take what I can get). I tried using: tshark tcp port 80 or tcp port 443 -V -R "http" Which gave me the header, but also…
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Why do I see "The NPF driver isn't running. You may have trouble capturing or listing interfaces." when starting Wireshark?

When I start up Wireshark, why do I see this message? "The NPF driver isn't running. You may have trouble capturing or listing interfaces."
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Wireshark cannot see traffic from a VirtualBox guest on Windows 7

I have been trying to use Wireshark to capture some traffic that comes from a virtual machine. The setup is: Windows 7 host Ubuntu guest VirtualBox 4 I send some packets from the guest to the host or another IP in the host LAN. The packets get…
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In Wireshark where can I find the TLS Server's Certificate

I'm looking at a TLS v1.3 headers in Wireshark and I'm not sure where I would find the server certificate that is used to confirm that the server is who they claim to be. The Client Sends Hello then the Server Sends Hello with two TLS Record…
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