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How do I capture all packets on local wifi network using Wireshark settings -

I'm attempting to replicate a 'wifi cafe' setup in a home lab environment. I'd like to demonstrate that unencrypted (non-HTTPS) network traffic on a wifi network can be viewed by other wireless devices. I've seen this in action (ala firesheep) on a…
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Multicast works only in promiscuous mode

I'm trying to receive MPEG-TS over UDP multicast transport in Arch Linux. So when I run ffprobe -i udp://@224.1.1.240:6000 it hangs forever with no result. Then I run tcpdump and it shows no multicast traffic from the address. But if there is…
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Is there a way to hide or disable promiscuous interface in Centos 7?

I use Lynis to audit my Centos 7 server security and I got a complain: ! Found promiscuous interface [NETW-3015] - Details : eth0 - Solution : Determine if this mode is required or whitelist interface in…
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VM LAB - Promiscuous mode clarification

So for clarification I am running a Lab within VMware behind OpenVPN, 1 NIC with direct internet access (WAN vswitch) and another NIC with a leg inside a LAN vswitch. (This obviously houses my VM's away from the public net and allows me to use…
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Does Open vSwitch put attached interfaces into promiscuous mode?

When I use Linux bridging to bridge a virtual machine to a physical NIC, I have to explicitly set the NIC to promiscuous mode so that ethernet frames that were destined for the VM would make it to the bridge. Is this required when using Open…
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Iperf2 capture received promiscous mode traffic Not Multicast

I want to capture all traffic in my Iperf server that I listen for promiscously, even if I am not the intended IP. I know you can do this with Multicast addresses, but I do not want to follow that way: multicasting on Wifi incurs a throughput loss I…
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how much load promiscuous mode add to the server

How much load does promiscuous mode add to the server, when enabled on the main network public interface. I had to create a bridge and while inspecting the traffic using something like: tcpdump -n -e -ttt -i pflog0 inbound I notice all requests of…
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brctl bridge forwarding packets to promiscuous interfaces

I have two promiscuous sniffing interfaces on my linux box: eth0 is connected to an external vlan bridge eth1 is connected to an internal vlan bridge with eth0 I can sniff all traffic on my "external network" with eth1 I can sniff all traffic…
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Debian KVM bridge promiscuous mode still has IP

I had three interfaces working on my Debian KVM box, all three bridged to guest VM's, f0 was mgmt, f1 was public static, and f2 was working promisc bridge. When I reinstalled the OS on larger drive and ported my /etc/networking/interfaces back in,…
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How do I capture packets on a Linux VM in a VMware environment?

I've got a Linux server that is a VM running on ESXi 6.7. We're running into some network trouble with it, and I'm trying to use tcpdump to capture traffic on the VM itself, but I'm getting only the traffic generated by the server, and not the…
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promiscuous mode when i run wireshark

I am running Ubuntu Linux and had installed Wireshark on it. I can see the incoming and outgoing traffic just fine. but as you know when you run Wireshark your nic should be on promiscuous mode. when I check my nic status with netstat -i I can't…
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Can i setup a VM in ESXI with bridging two of it's ethernet adapters?

I need to setup a virtual machine running windows server 2012 r2 (with 2 ethernet adapters) and install a firewall software to work in bridge mode ... Is it possible to do this in VMware ESXi using promiscuous option?
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Set up Ubuntu server to intercept traffic directed at another IP and send it to Apache?

I'm trying to reverse-engineer the protocol used by HP ePrint. For some reason the printer responds with an error when I override the DNS to point to my own local server, so I decided to create a static routing entry on the router to send traffic…
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Promiscuous mode not working with ubuntu and wireshark

I am running Ubuntu Linux and have installed wireshark on it. I can see the incoming and outgoing traffic just fine. Now I want to see the traffic from other devices which are on my LAN. So, I did: $ ifconfig wlan0 promisc Now I pick up my phone…
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