Questions tagged [wireshark]
For questions about Wireshark, a packet analyzer
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Unusual IRC Traffic Detected on My Home Network: Need Advice on Investigation and Mitigation [closed]
I'm a sysadmin and DevOps engineer and have recently detected some unusual traffic on my home network that has raised my security concerns.
I noticed multiple Chromecast streaming options for devices ...
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Where in the TLS 1.3 record is the sequence number located? [closed]
The sequence number should be a 64 bit number in every TLS record, but the record header layer is only 5 bytes long and I am looking at a Wireshark pcap, where the TLS record only includes the header ...
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Average bits/s report in tshark
Does tshark has an option to report average bit/s statistics of the capture which appear in Wireshark at the end of Statistics > Capture File Properties?
I'm trying to automate a load test and need ...
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Is there a way to precompile data from pcap to speed up booting wireshark?
Is there a way to precompile/precalculate the data from a pcap file to speed up booting wireshark?
I have a big pcap file and wireshark is crashing when I try to open it.
I know it sums and computes a ...
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UDP encrypted packets
I am analysing a Wireshark capture as part of understanding UDP/TCP, DNS and HTTP concepts and how packets are sent.
I found an interesting sequence of messages in the Wireshark file, but I am not ...
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Wireshark not capturing packets?
I am trying to use Wireshark, but for some reason it won't capture packets. I've used it once before and it worked just fine, so I can't understand why it's not working right now. The only thing I've ...
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TLS decryption with wireshark
I know there are many similar articles about how to do this, but I cant seem to get any of them to work, and I cant get any info to tell me what the problem might be.
I am following this: https://www....
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Where are the characters in Wireshark's Packet Bytes pane?
I've just updated my Wireshark to version 4.0.1, and now, while investigating a TCP communication, I don't see any textual information anymore in the Packet Bytes pane, as you can see from this ...
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Monitor UDP packet in wireshark
I am trying to monitor udp packets from server to client in Wireshark at both end. Can I get any clue in Wireshark with which I find out that ok this specific udp packet is what I sent and received at ...
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Wireshark: Internet Control Message Protocol
I've installed Wireshark on my Windows machine, and to my knowledge, the section at the bottom represents the packets in their octal and ASCII form. When I click on the IP version & the header ...
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troubleshoot pcaps for BACnet industrial protocol in OT/IoT
I have a test bench that I am trying to learn how to take pcaps with WireShark for BACnet UDP traffic of building automation devices.
4 devices in total on test bench:
Windows 10 OS running ...
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(Wireshark) how to filter TCP connections
I have a filter, where I am filtering connections based on a HTTP proxy hostname.
But I need to filter the whole TCP connections where at least one packet contain this tag (from SYN to FIN, not just ...
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Monitoring comms between 2 devices on a switch using Wireshark
I am new to networking and now learning wireshark now and unable to capture comms between 2 devices. This is my setup.
When I connect to "Ethernet" (Ethernet is the Ethernet port at my PC) ...
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Does Ethernet have a header and a trailer?
I have read that Ethernet have a header and a trailer, but in Wireshark I can only see an Ethernet header and no Ethernet trailer.
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Wireshark only shows single HTTP request instead of its constituent TCP packets and ACKs
To my understanding, in packet no.39, the post request actually consists of multiple tcp packets getting sent, and they all get acked once by no.40. The server has received it. Now, the server sends ...
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Determine network traffic on a switch port in bit/s from Wireshark
I am trying to understand how much data is flowing through a specific port on a Cisco (Stratix) switch. I have set up Port Mirroring so that I can capture the traffic on the target port via Wireshark. ...
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How does wireshark calculate the TCP length when there is no header indiciating such?
In wireshark, you have this field:
[TCP Segment Len: 1380] # How is this calculated?
My assumption is using the IP headers plus TCP's.
TCP Segment Len = IP Total Length - IHL - TCP Header Length
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Loops in routers-same packet?
Considering a loop topology between a few routers with a host connected to one of them, when it's default routing directs to the cycle.
Even when observing Wireshark, how can we know its the same ...
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Wireshark: Cannot find frame type of packets
I am getting used to Wireshark operation and currently, I am investigating different frames (control, management, data frame) and using filter in these links (https://mrncciew.com/2014/10/02/cwap-802-...
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How to include in the filter http requests satisfying the given condition and the respective responses?
For example, I want to see all the http requests containing the given string in the http.host field and their respective responses. Right now my filter is frame.number < 61403 and http.host ...
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What does this Wireshark capture filter do
I was reading through a guide where I saw the following Wireshark capture filter used.
(tcp[2:2] > 1500 and tcp[2:2] < 1550)
I had a brief look over Wireshark's website which listed their ...
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ARP Header's Mac Address set to 0 when broadcasting [duplicate]
I'm learning about Ethernet frames and networks and Wireshark has been very useful.
I have a doubt regarding broadcasting and ARP request, since we don't know the Target MAC address, in the ARP's ...
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Wireshark on ProCurve 1810G - IEEE802a protocol
I have recently started a networking course and acquired an old HP ProCurve 1810G-24 Switch to play about with, which I have updated to the latest firmware.
I'm using Wireshark to monitor the traffic, ...
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Wireshark -Protocol Hierarchy Omitting large amount of subprotocol traffic
Based on responses, I've repositioned this question to ask why the subprotocols under my TCP header are not accounting for the sum of packet transfer. (I.E TCP= 97.1%, remainder of packet content not ...
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Probe Request getting\understanding Information Elements (IEs)
I'm trying to read Information Elements (IEs) from the probe request
can't seem to understand the stracture of it
as I undersatnd it size can be 0-2312 bytes
but how do I know how many there are?
I ...
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Wireshark Decrypting IKEv1 Text PSK to Hex
I'm trying to debug a Cisco VPN setup as part of a Uni Lab (so please don't worry about posting of keys etc. it's just a toy setup with no internet facing connection).
I want to decrypt the IKEv1 ...
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Unwanted Wireshark Optimizing Received 802.11 Channel for Frames
I am trying to run an experiment which involves monitoring 3 wireless channels simultaneously in Wireshark which would allow me to see a single frame captured 3 times on each channel.
To do this, I ...
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Some random client requests fails with unexpected TCP [RST] packets [duplicate]
I have a service doing listen that serves clients over a TCP sockets connection with a raw binary protocol.
The principle is basic: the connection is established, the client sends a request with data, ...
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what are scenario where re-transmission packets can been seen in wireshark logs
While troubleshooting i came across this challenge ,able to see retransmission packets continuously in packet capture . please let me know in what scenarios this retransmission packets are seen.
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Homeplug av frame
I want to check differences between a frame sent by a pc connected to an homeplug and one pc connected directly with the gateway/router. When i sniff packets i cannot see any differences in the frame, ...
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Detecting Ethernet over power by packets
If someone plugs an Ethernet over power (EOP, Homeplug) into the switch and then connect elsewhere in the building, can I detect this device by sniffing the packets with tools like Wireshark or ...
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Wireshark, Bluetooth interface, identify errors in frames/re-transmissions
I'm using WireShark on Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS.
I listen to bluetooth0 interface while transferring a file from my laptop to my smartphone over Bluetooth(using Blueman).
Without any transfer, I get packets ...
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Wireshark display filter to hide Protocol = 802.11?
[Note: reposted here from SO...]
I've set Wireshark's capture filter set to capture only packets from the MAC address of interest, but the result is dominated by zillions of packets whose Protocol is &...
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Suspicious flood of ARP requests [closed]
I'm trying to review a Wireshark capture and it seems the network is heavily flooded with ARP requests that make no sense to me.
The destination is not "Broadcast", but some unknown DELL ...
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Man in the middle legitimate packet inspection
we're trying to debug a faulty Panasonic Mobile softphone SIP app (both Android & Apple versions), as many calls are randomly dropped unexpectedly.
This is the conceptual connection diagram:
We ...
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How do I set a display filter in wireshark that sorts by destination broadcast?
1 0.000000 Vmware_90:07:7b Broadcast ARP 60 Who has 192.168.185.144? Tell 192.168.185.7
27 0.995837 28.144.7.123 192.168.185.144 HTTP 1177 HTTP/1.1 200 OK (...
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Capture traffic flowing through a Brocade switch remotely
I am currently doing packet capture through mirroring with Wireshark as mentioned in this post
I can mirror the traffic to a port physically jacked into and analyze the packets redirected there w/ ...
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how to capture DHCP packets in wireshark
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I want to capture DHCP packets in Wireshark but I did not receive any. Not my filter wrong, I don't get any. So I think I can't trigger the DHCP communications.
my filters:
dhcp
bootp
udp.port == ...
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IPv4 and UDP/TCP packets inside of ICMP packet?
A week ago, after opening wireshark, i was surprised by seing a storm of ICMP packets from different IP addresses. While deep analysing of thoses packets, i noticed that those ICMP packets contains ...
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When I send the ICMP packet with 4000B, but the IPv4 segment calculated 4008B
When I send the ICMP packet with data size as 4000B for testing the IP fragment.
ping 192.168.2.1 -c1 -s4000
and the Wireshark captured it,
Whether is is because of ICMP header? but we know ICMP ...
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What's the Destination unreachable ICMP packet(ICMP payload the UDP) usage? [closed]
In my Mac(192.168.2.228), it will send ICMP packet to my house's router (192.168.2.1).
with the info Destination unreachable (Port unreachable)
and in the Wireshark packet detail panel, there ...
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What is the difference between tshark, dumpcap and others for collecting/sniffing traffic?
Wireshark provides tshark and dumpcap, and I've also seen people using the wireshark binary or even tcpdump to collect/save network traffic.
Online it is claimed that tshark or dumpcap hardly make a ...
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Why the different colours for SACK markers in Wireshark's tcptrace graph?
Wireshark's tcptrace time sequence graph shows a good deal of information, but I cannot find a document that spells out exactly what it all means. It's broadly similar to the original tcptrace except ...
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What type of attack could this be ? (Wireshark pcap) [closed]
If I understand it correctly the "client" sent an unencrypted password to the pop3 server consisting of a long string of As. Is this a type of attack and if yes, how does it work?
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how to send a number of TCP packets and capture only those packets using tshark?
I'm using iperf3 to send 1005 TCP packets with the commands:
iperf3 -s -i 1 -f m -p 5200 -D
iperf3 -c 10.60.0.113 -k 1005 -bitrate 0 --reverse --omit 2 -p 5200
In server, client respectively.
The ...
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Capturing dot1q packets with Wireshark on a PC
I have spent the last few hours trying to capture some trunk packets so I can see and examine the dot1q VLAN field. I have tried mirroring the trunk port to my PC using the following commands on Cisco ...
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How do I interpret this Wireshark log file?
I'm new to using Wireshark and I'd like some help with analyzing the log shown in the image.
I also ran a nmap scan of the ports on my computer, but I'm not able to identify which of these lines are ...
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re transmission happened before receiving Three ACKs packets
In the following wireshark trace, the packet with seq=41030 was sent, after some time the packet before it got acknowledged. after that a retransmission happened the packet seq=41030, then 3 ACKs ...
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How do I use the wireshark I/O graph to plot the value of an arbitrary bit in the data layer?
I have a number of UDP packets that are using a protocol that is not implemented in wireshark. I would like to use the I/O graph to plot the value of the data packet byte at index 3. Is this possible?
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what's the difference between trailer and padding field in ethernet frame captured by wireshark?
The Ethernet minimum length should be 64 Bytes, so when the data is less than 46B, there would be some extra bytes padding to the end of data, make sure the frame size up to 64B.
When I capture the ...
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