Sniffer is another word for packet analyzer
A sniffer, or packet analyzer, is a tool that intercepts data-packets from networks (ehternet,wireless,...).
A very known packet sniffer is wireshark.
Questions tagged [packet-sniffer]
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Meraki VPN Traffic Capture
We have multiple offices interconnected via VPN using Meraki switches. I've been looking around and can't seem to find a way, but was thinking it's possible. Is it possible for me to put my desktop on one of the remote vpn'd subnets so I can monitor…
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Log http data in unique files using tcpick
I'm trying to use tcpick to log http data in unique files (client and server mixed together). This is one of the examples from tcpick's man page:
$ tcpick -i eth0 "port 80" -wRub
I expected this to write the tcp stream to a file named…
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How to sniff udp between two windows applications on the same machine
How do I monitor the duplex udp traffic between two apps on my windows machine.
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How to sniff request packet on VPN server?
With some safe reasons, I need to sniff pptp cleint request packets, then to get dst ip and src ip, for example 10.5.1.100 -> 218.100.211.100 , I want to know the correct rule in tcpdump
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Deep packet Inspection
Recently it came across me that some of the users might be abusing our platform not conform to our rules.
Basically what we run is a platform for students by students. We sell shell accounts and VPS for ultra low prices (e.g. 15 euro for 1 year…
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What is the best way to monitor all traffic of a subnet with CISCO infrastructure?
I'm in the process of setting up a network security lab and want to monitor all packets leaving and entering the network. I'll get a 2Gbit/sec uplink as a channel terminated on a CISCO 3750 switch and a /24, the other end is a 6500 which is being…
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Getting wireshark to see network (uplink) traffic?
I have wireshark on a win 7 toshiba laptop plugged in to a hp procurve switch. I set the port the laptop is plugged in to as a 'monitor' port, monitoring all the other ports.
I have 1 other computer plugged in to the switch and then an uplink line…
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How can I see dumps of wholе HTTP packets in FreeBSD?
I need to see whole HTTP packets sent and recieved by an application for debugging purposes. How can this be done in command-line?
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how to check for sniffers in Ubuntu?
Somebody is accusing me that my linux ubuntu machine could be the source for a server attack.
Their technique was replacing the
original ssh by this patched ssh and,
as such eliminated all sshd logging
and debugging information while
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Detect and aggregate packets sent to server per TCP port
Is there a way with Ubuntu 10.4LTS to detect and aggregate the number of packets transmitted over every port?
In other words, I'd like a process to keep track of the number of packets sent to each TCP port (whether or not a connection is…
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fast way to find network user computer on domain hogging all wan bandwidth
i have a network of about 40 domain users and i have huge latency wan issues, like 1400ms for google.com pings. I have noticed that the problem goes away after everyone goes home for the day. I would like to know if i should use something like a hub…
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How to I sniff this from iTunes?
If you have used Firebug, you know that you can see the "AJAX" requests back and forth.
And you can see the headers sent.
I would like the same thing. Except, I would like to sniff iTunes. I want to know the REST API that iTunes uses to talk to the…
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Track IP Messenger's chatting by wireshark
We have Linux server ( RHEL 5 ), and some client machines ( Windows XP ) in local area network. We using server as proxy server.
I am using squid proxy.
My windows machines using internet by proxy.
Now my client machines using IP messenger for…
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Can an external server be used to encrypt all traffic
My work takes me to a number of places with WiFi connection. I want to be able to encrypt the traffic between my laptop and the internet. Can I do this with a VPN server? What is the best way to get this done? Is there a secure and reliable service…
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Traffic capture at boot
I'm trying to figure out what packets a linux host sends at boot in order to debug it.
Is there a way to start packet capture during boot time to not miss any packets?
What is your way of going about it?
I have found a red hat guide but it's behind…
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