Wireshark is an open source Network Protocol Analyzer under GNU License.
Questions tagged [wireshark]
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How do I convert wireshark capture files to text files?
How can I convert wirshark captures (.cap) files to text files or some format from which I can read the file and parse its contents ?

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Disable TLS 1.2 stops RST packets
Environment,
Web server - Server 2012 R2, IIS 8, ASP.NET application
Firewall Cisco 5515
Un-Managed HP switches, No vlaning
Client has been using Curl from the outside to hit our application.
No one else should be using the server.
Using wireshark i…

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How to send captured packets to a different destination?
I have some data packets captured using tcpdump in a pcap file. Now I want to send those packets to a another destination. how I can achieve this?

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Filter tcpdump file AFTER capturing
I captured a really big tcpdump file which now always crashes my wireshark. It was captured with no filters and I need to apply some afterwards to make the file smaller.
Is this somehow possible?

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How to filter on a the contents of a packet in Wireshark?
I've got an application that is communicating with an Oracle database, it's logging is pretty crappy so the only way I can workout what SQL it is sending to our database is by packet sniffing for TNS.requests; I want to filter these packets by those…
user62006
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Why send authoritative nameserver in DNS?
Out of curiosity, I'm checking the Wireshark DNS packets. I can see that there's a DNS query from the host, and then DNS response from the DNS server. Everything is just as expected.
However, if you further check in the query, you can see that the…

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Wireshark running on a server seeing lots of `ARP who has` with different tells
We're seeing some suspicious network activity, and when I was trying to see if it was one particular server of ours I ran a Wireshark trace. I noted a lot of ARP packets asking who has x.x.x.x, but all being told to tell different addresses. In the…

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Unable to open WireShark in CentOS 6.5
I have installed WireShark in CentOS 6.5 with the following packages using Yum.
Dependencies Resolved
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Package Arch Version …

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How do I install Wireshark in Red Hat Linux?
How do I install Wireshark in Red Hat Linux?
At the Wireshark download page, am I supposed to download "Standard package" for Red Hat under "Third-Party Package"? Does the Red Hat version have a GUI?

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Why does WireShark think this frame is a TCP segment of a reassembled PDU
Please find a small pcap file here illustrating my problem.
I have a three-way TCP handshake, followed by two FIX logons. (FIX is a protocol used in trading.) The first FIX logon (frame 4) is interpreted and parsed just fine by WireShark, but the…

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How to monitor VPN traffic with Wireshark on Windows 7?
I'm running Wireshark 1.6.7 (latest available release) x64 on Windows 7 x64.
I only have a single network card on this computer, and Wireshark shows only it as an available adapter to capture packets on.
If I establish a VPN connection (using…

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How to debug "HTTP request sent, awaiting response"?
I have a Linux server on an ADSL connection, and I just noticed that sometimes I get
Connecting to example.com|xxx.xxx.xxx.122|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
when I use wget or e.g. a browser like firefox.
In the case of…

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Why my laptop sends ARP request to itself?
I have just started to learn about protocols. While studying the packets in wireshark, I came across a ARP request sent by my machine to my own IP. Here is the details of the packet :
No. Time Source Destination …

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Can Wireshark read data being sent to/from other computers?
Let's say WireShark is installed on computer A. And let's say I am looking at a Youtube video on the computer B.
Can WireShark see what computer B is doing?

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Wireshark filtering-trying to filter out my own local ip
I'm trying to filter out my local machine's IP address 192.168.5.22.
I used ip.src != 192.168.5.22|| ip.dst !=192.168.5.22 and I keep seeing my address pop up.

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