

To check if promiscuous mode is enabled, click Capture > Options and verify the “Enable promiscuous mode on all interfaces” checkbox is activated at the bottom of this window. If you have promiscuous mode enabled-it’s enabled by default-you’ll also see all the other packets on the network instead of only packets addressed to your network adapter.

Wireshark captures each packet sent to or from your system. You can configure advanced features by clicking Capture > Options, but this isn’t necessary for now.Īs soon as you click the interface’s name, you’ll see the packets start to appear in real time. For example, if you want to capture traffic on your wireless network, click your wireless interface. All of these last 3 filters are valid as far as Wireshark is concerned, i.e.

Capturing PacketsĪfter 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. Note: that Wireshark can be used to sniff wireless traffic 1. Search for online tutorials and other handy information, such as YouTube videos for using Wireshark. Don’t use this tool at work unless you have permission. Download Wireshark and install it on your computer. This is tracked at the CentOS bug tracker, as well.Just a quick warning: Many organizations don’t allow Wireshark and similar tools on their networks. Using an EL7 build of the most recent FC19 wireshark SRPM (wireshark-1.10.6-1.fc19) seems to avoid the issue. ***MEMORY-ERROR***: wireshark: GSlice: assertion failed: sinfo->n_allocated > 0įilter expression is applied and app does not fail. Tcpdump: listening on any, link-type LINUX_SLL (Linux cooked), capture size 65535 bytes Tcpdump: WARNING: Promiscuous mode not supported on the "any" device $ ssh XX.XX.X.XX sudo /usr/sbin/tcpdump -i any -s0 -vv -w - \\\( port 8080 or port 13013 or port 80 or port 25 or port 8081 or port 4035 or port 1813 or port 1090 or port 14013 or port 443 or port 4054 \\\) | /usr/sbin/wireshark -k -i. Adjust filter expression in Wireshark's GUIĪpplying a filter expression occasionally triggers a "GSlice: assertion failed: sinfo->n_allocated > 0" message and failure: Take a live capture or pipe in a tcpdump captureĢ. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):ġ. Applying a filter expression to a packet capture can trigger a GSlice assertion failure.
