How To Wireshark Capture

Double click the interface or press the start button on the top left the blue shark fin.

How to wireshark capture. To avoid any side effects don t use any shiny features like capture filters or multiple files for now. In the wireshark capture interfaces window select start. Capture traffic that is not intended for your local machine. Capture traffic destined for machines other than your own make sure you ve finished step 3 successfully. After downloading and installing wireshark you can launch it and double click the name of a network interface under capture to start capturing packets on that interface.

Visit the url that you wanted to capture the traffic from. In addition to this as one of its strengths wireshark can read and write files in many different file formats of other network capturing tools. Select capture start or click on the blue start icon leaving wireshark running in the background replicate the problem once the issue has been fully replicated select capture stop or use the red stop icon lastly navigate to file save as and select a place to save the file. Single click the network interface and enter the capture filter in the applicable field by entering host camera ip address for example. Choose the right interface to capture from see networkinterfaces and start a capture.

When you finished the capture stop the capture with the red square on the top left of the screen. A pop up window will show up. To avoid any side effects don t use any shiny features like capture filters or multiple files for now. Try to capture using tcpdump windump if that s working it s a wireshark problem if not it s related to libpcap winpcap or the network card driver. For example if you want to capture traffic on your wireless network click your wireless interface.

Select file save as or choose an export option to record the capture. Select the shark fin on the left side of the wireshark toolbar press ctrl e or double click the network. Click on capture interfaces. There are other ways to initiate packet capturing.