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How can I capture packets belonging to a certain process

I need to capture packets belonging to a program or process. I know Winshark, but it just displays network traffic in a mess (in my view). If one wants to get the packets of a given process, you must ...
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Check whether a packet contains some fields and then log all subsequent ones in Wireshark

How can I write a filter in Wireshark that checks if the first packet has some field, then checks the new packets for another field, and if they matched, show what you got: if (someone has my valid ...
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Wireshark - Help seeing all network traffic

I have a Ralink RT3290 802.11bgn Wi-Fi Adapter and am running Windows 8. Sadly although my new computer helps in the design and testing of my touch based applications, my Network Engineering abilities ...
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Lightweight network packet capture solution for windows? [closed]

I'm looking for a lightweight packet capture solution for Windows. It needs to capture all packets on a physical network device and write them to a file (preferably .pcap, because that's easiest for ...
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Sniff traffic coming from one particular application?

Basically I'd like to sniff HTTP requests made by an .exe on Windows. I tried using wireshark, but it's somewhat unhandy since it sniffs all traffic on the interface. Are there any alternatives?
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Why do DNS queries use loopback interface?

Sniffing (using Wireshark), for didactical purpose, my loopback interface on Ubuntu 12.04, I noticed that a lot of DNS queries (maybe ALL of them) have 127.0.0.1 as source and destination address. ...
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Need advice on using Wireshark + aircrack-ng

I am making acquiantance with wireless security and attacks and was told to run some tests with aircrack-ng and wireshark. So I installed both of them and ran airmon to switch wi-fi card to monitor ...
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Unknown Inbound UTP Packets

I need some help figuring out something. I was looking at my network traffic using Wireshark and I saw a bunch of inbound UTP (uTorrent Transport Protocol) packets to my IP. About 10 different IP's ...
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Capture and Display Filters for HTTP/HTTPS using TCPDump or TShark

I am running CentOS v5.8 64bit. What are the correct capture and display filters to use in TCPDump or TShark to monitor and trace HTTP/HTTPS traffic similar to what is provided by HTTPWatch? Also, ...
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Program to record data transmission between two computers using a TCP port

I am looking for a way to view data being transmitted over a TCP port between two computers. Is there a software package that allows this? I suppose I could script something to re-route data coming ...
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HDI: Capture specific content types in wireshark?

I've been tasked to audit in/outbound traffic at our site, but I don't know much about Wireshark. I understand how to set up a capture filter for broad protocols (IP only or tcp, udp, icmp, etc), but ...
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Do machines connected to the same switch belong to the same subnet?

When we talk about a subnet - do we mean all the systems connected to the same switch? If I have an assigned IP address of 10.0.2.1, am I in the same subnet as that of 10.0.1.39? When we talk about ...
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how to find tcp streams without final ack/fin sequence in a huge packet capture file

I have a huge pcap file which contains a large number of individual tcp streams.But out of these , there are some invalid streams which dont have the final fin/ack sequence. Is there any way i can ...
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How do I limit packet capturing in Wireshark to only a specific protocol?

I would like to listen to HTTP traffic on port 8080. When I start capturing packets in Wireshark, it's flooded by packets using the SSDP protocol on port 1900. I would like to limit the packet ...
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Filtering sniffed logs using Wireshark

I'm experimenting with packet sniffing and log examination using Wireshark, and I'm quickly realizing that I'm not nearly as safe as I should be when using public hot spots. In efforts to better ...
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Wireshark sniffing “microsoft-ds [syn] seq=0..”

I'm new to wireshark. (installed it today) I'm just looking at the traffic and noticed this kind of packages: 60261 microsoft-ds [syn] seq=0 Win=8192 Len=0 MSS=1460 SACK_PERM=1 its sent to ip: ...
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Unable to capture outgoing traffic with Wireshark on wi-fi network

I'm trying to use Wireshark on Backtrack 5 to capture packets that are transmitted through my home wi-fi network. I'm perfectly able to capture outgoing traffic from localhost and, it seems, incoming ...
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Chrome browser sending Keep-Alive packets?

I ran Wireshark on my PC and found that my chrome browser was sending LOTS of Keep-alive packets even when there are no sites loaded in the browser, and even when there are no extensions installed!! ...
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Networking packet sniffer for Linux that captures the application names?

I tried Wireshark. It shows the source and destination IP address, port number, and packet contents, but nothing about which application is using the packets. Apparently tcpdump is similar; network ...
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Forwarding wifi traffic to wired pc

I'm trying to play around with Wireshark on my home network, and was wondering if there is a way to create a new connection on my PC that receives all wifi packets on the network. The PC is a wired ...
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promiscuous mode with Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200 AGN wireless card

I'm trying to solve this problem for a long time, googling, reading and trying with no help. I have laptop with Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200 AGN wireless card which suppose to support promiscuous ...
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Interactive network sniffing

I'm looking for what essentially amounts to an "interactive" Wireshark. I am looking for a tool that allows me to view network traffic on a given port and allow/deny/modify traffic on a per-packet ...
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Packet Sniff over Wi-Fi

I've got a non-PC wireless client, and I'm wondering about some of its connections. I want to see the actual packets being exchanged from the net to my device over a Wi-Fi connection. I have ...
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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 ...
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Capturing wireless traffic (using Wireshark)

When I run wireshark on a wired network it works fine and reports all of the packets. When I run it on a wireless network though I only see my own traffic. The wireless card I have is supposed to ...
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Usefulness of packets in wireshark? SSDP protocol, rather than HTTP?

I used to be able to filter my wireshark packets to get useful information from them. However, with my current configuration on OSX, all of the HTTP traffic is coming through as the SSDP protocol and ...
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How do I un-gzip data captured by Wireshark?

I have a Wireshark capture file with a HTTP request, however, the request is gzipped. My question is how can I ungzip it so see what data was transfered in cleartext? The capture file is here if ...
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Capture traffic for specific application

I have the application which communicate with some server. I want to know what is the IP of this server. How can I capture all the traffic from specific application and not just all the traffic like ...
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Wireshark does not see interfaces (winXP)

Short story: Wireshark is working....on my winXP-32b ... usage .... Long long time later Wireshark does not work It can't find any usefull interface (just VPN) ipconfig /all Ethernet adapter ...