Wireshark is an open source Network Protocol Analyzer under GNU License.
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RouterOS sending malformed packets
I have a Routerboard 951G-2HnD which runs latest stable:
RouterOS v6.50.5
Firmware v3.41
The board acts as the WiFi AP in WPA2-PSK mode. Recently I have noticed unhealthy amount of traffic sent from AP to clients for no good reason. Example of…
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Server won't return some requests to single ISP
I have a Linode server that won't return random GET requests to my usual ISP (but never gets stuck with the same one each time). If I switch ISP or use Opera VPN, all works well.
Linode says all looks ok to them. The server's resources are fine…

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Packet Captures saved in bin file format
Does anyone know of a tool to open a packet capture saved as a .bin file? That or how to convert it to pcap or something wireshark can open.
I took a packet capture from a thin client and when I download it its a .bin file type. I have not been able…

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TCP window scale mismatch between CentOS 7 and Windows 2012 R2
Having TCP client on CentOS 7 and TCP listener on Windows 2012 R2, I observed through wireshark, sysinternals procmon and ss -bitmonz command, that the tcp client wscale is 7 (scale factor 128) while the tcp listener wscale is 8 (scale factor…

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How to capture http requests headers and body
need to capture all incoming/outcoming http traffic of a unix machine, and then run a script on each http header/body.
I have found that tcpdump captures all the requests, but big ones end up being split into multiple frames and is not easy to patch…

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Traffic to and from mongodb using SSL is still visible in wireshark in plaintext
EDIT: There was nothing wrong. I was an idiot. The below settings are
correct.
I've set up an instance of mongodb (3.4) on windows, configured like this:
net:
port: 27017
ssl:
mode: preferSSL
PEMKeyFile: C:\...\mongodb.pem
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Wireshark not decrypting TLS packet
I am unable to understand why decryption does not work here.
Consider the scenario in this pcap file - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bz5corUPBatBWWpXTFYwWjdfS0k
I have a network setup such that
Internet Server (104.31.17.3)<---------> (eth1)…
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server stops sending SYN ACK after several normal connections
I have a few thousand devices behind a NAT talking to two servers. Each device is behind a local router (think modem/router), at which they get NATed to a private network that has thousands of these devices, and at the gateway for this private…

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What's the correct syntax for tcp.dstport in display filters
I've put the following display filter:
tcp.dstport=8127
But it's showing as incorrect (red background):
What am I doing wrong?

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NFS stuck in ack loop
I have a situation where one of three different NFS clients will break after a period of time (some number of days). I find that the broken host and server are continually sending 'ack' packets (to the tune of 100+mb/s). Each side is sending the…

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Wireshark decoding URL from M – SEARCH * HTTP/1.1
I am new to Wireshark and when I am running Wireshark it shows me the source address as the IP address but the destination address is 239.255.255.250 and at the info tab it shows M – SEARCH * HTTP/1.1. My question is that if there is a way to decode…

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What is causing RST ACK in my connections?
75% of calls to a 3rd party API are getting dropped. When this happens is propagates up to my calling code as a The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel error.
Here is a wireshark capture of RST ACK happening with 2 calls:…

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How to capture network packets that use SS7 protocol using Wireshark?
Since SS7 protocol stack is used in GSM mobile telephony network, we can't get the packets of SS7 protocols using Wireshark in Windows Computer and browsing in a web browser like Google chrome.
So how can one get packets which have SS7 protocol in…

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Need help in understanding the packet analysis(wireshark)
The snapshot capture below contains a single HTTP request to a web server, in which the client web browser requests some files from server, and the server returns an HTTP/1.1 200 (OK) response which includes the file requested:
Here is what I…

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Debugging why network packets are being dropped
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I have an application that I am currently testing out that runs on RHEL 6. The setup for my test is the application installed on a embedded device, connected by an Ethernet cable to PC that communicates with the virtual machine on that PC…

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