Wireshark is an open source Network Protocol Analyzer under GNU License.
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'socat' not displaying incoming UDP packets, but Wireshark does
The link is an image of a Wireshark dump of an incoming 60-byte Ethernet frame which contains a UDP packet. The packet payload is the single word 'hello' (sorry, I don't have enough rep to paste the image directly).
Problem: I can't get socat or nc…

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VoIP one-way audio, only when call initiated from one side
I am setting up some new switches and VLANs and I am getting trouble with our pre-existing Asterisk VoIP set-up.
Most calls work ok. Some get just one-way audio. I tried to narrow it down to this specific test situation:
Asterisk server is…

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Why is my PC doing more than one DNS query for www.ietf.org?
I'm doing an exercise for a class where I have to flush the DNS cache and then visit www.ietf.org and capture the packets. I got this:
The selected query and response are the "main" ones. What about the others? Looks like a redirect. My guess is…

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TLS 1.2 Failure
I am using Webinspect to scan sites. When going through Webinspect, I get "the client and server cannot communicate because they do not possess a common algorithm".
From the same system, when using Firefox, Chrome, or Edge, I am able to connect.
The…

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How to decrypt TLS traffic with Wireshark using RSA asynchronous encryption?
I want to be able to capture and decrypt TLS traffic that one off my internal application (that I don't have access) makes to the internet. (For testing I am using Postman to create a request to a secure server.)
What I did was to add an Nginx as a…

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Sniffing packets over a wifi network, with or without monitor mode using wireshark
So, I am actually confused, there are some guides that say you can't just capture traffic on wireless LAN with promiscuous mode and you need to setup monitor mode, also enter the wifi password to be able to decrypt the data.
But then there are some…

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TCP Window Size
Hoping someone can clarify a query I have in relation to TCP window size and whether it could be contributing to my slow throughput achieved via iPerf.
I took a Wireshark capture from a client while doing a standard iPerf test from the client (win…

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Debugging port forwarding in Docker
Manager
I have a docker swarm setup on a mesh VPN. My manager is on 10.0.0.1. I have run:
docker swarm init --advertise-addr=wg0
which then uses the VPN IP to listen on 10.0.0.1 opposed to the default public IP.
Worker
On my worker 10.0.0.2 I can…

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Record SSH commands sent to a Mac from Windows
I've got a bit of a puzzler - I am an administrator on both a Windows 10 and a Mac Catalina machine.
The Windows machine is currently running software that has a known bug - SSH commands are sent to a Mac by a large piece of .NET Software that is…

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Treat TCP as MQTT protocol
I have packets captured during not encrypted MQTT communication:
Protocol is detected as TCP. How to ask Wireshark to analyze packets as MQTT?
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In case I set MQTT server work on default 1883 port I Wireshark treats packets like MQTT. But how to…

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Is it possible to sniff packets of other users on connected over LAN in a workspace or college lab?
I am asking this (for educational purposes) to be alert if this kind of thing happens to me.

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Troubleshooting Network Switching Connectivity
I am managing a network that sporadically has network outages that present as follows
no TCP or ICMP traffic is working between any devices on the network. Two computers with valid ip addresses are unable to ping each other
UDP, ARP, SSDP, and…

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Retrieve data from wireshark (PCAPNG)
I have a PCAPNG file and I need to retrieve two files from it, one is a TXT and the other one is a PNG. The provided file does not have FTP-DATA, it only have ARP, DHCP, DNS, FTP, HTTP, IGMPv3, OCSP, SSDP, TCP, TLSv1.2, TLSv1.3 and UDP packets.
This…

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NBNS Query = ICMP Destination Unreachable
I am having some difficulties when I am trying to get the NetBIOS Name of a machine by it's IP Address with the command (On Windows) nbtstat -A 192.168.1.1, In this example I am trying to get the name of the Router.
My problem is that it doesn't…

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Wireless Packet captures - VMware
Software: Wireshark
Is it possible to analyse Wireless Packet captures on VMWare using Linux Ubuntu OS? I ask this as I’m using Windows for my computer but I’m struggling to get all the information I need so I’ve had to resort to a virtual…

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