Posts Tagged With ‘capture’

  1. Wireless Capture on Windows

    Capturing Wireless on Windows was always problematic, because other than on Linux or Mac it wasn’t possible to activate Monitor mode on the WiFi cards to capture the radio layer. All you could do was capture packets on your WiFi card from the Ethernet layer and up. That’s  unless you spent money on the now […]
  2. The Network Capture Playbook Part 6 – Planning Network Troubleshooting

    In the previous posts of the Capture Playbook series we discussed various approaches about how to record packets, but before going into more elaborate techniques of doing that we should talk about how a network troubleshooting project works, and especially how to plan a capture setup. In my experience this aspect of a troubleshooting is […]
  3. The Network Capture Playbook Part 5 – Network TAP Basics

    Most network captures are recorded using SPAN ports, as we’ve seen in the previous part of this series. Now that we know what SPAN is all about, it’s time to find out what TAPs are all about, and why you would want (or need) to use them in network capture. TAP is an acronym for […]
  4. The Network Capture Playbook Part 4 – SPAN Port In-Depth

    We have briefly covered SPAN ports in previous posts of this series, but there are so many things to consider that we have to look at the advantages and problems more closely. Even more so since it looks like there is a constant “battle” going on between SPAN and TAP supporters – some analysts will […]
  5. The Wireshark Q&A trace file sharing tutorial

    In many of those cases the person asking a question on the Wireshark Q&A site posts screenshots or ASCII dumps of the packet list, which is very hard to work with when you’re trying to help. It is much easier if you can get a PCAP or PCAPng file instead, but there are two major […]
  6. The Network Capture Playbook Part 3 – Network cards

    One of the most common answers that come to my mind when being asked questions during or after a talk at a conference is the famous phrase “it depends…”. This may sound unsatisfactory at first, but the problem with a lot of questions regarding network analysis (and packet capture) is that there are always so […]
  7. The Network Capture Playbook Part 2 – Speed, Duplex and Drops

    In part one of the playbook series we took a look at general Ethernet setups and capture situations, so in this post (as in all others following this one) I’ll assume you’re familiar with the topics previously discussed. This time, let’s check out how speed and duplex can become quite important, and what “drops” are […]
  8. The Network Capture Playbook Part 1 – Ethernet Basics

    Capturing network packets is the first step in any kind of network analysis or network forensics situation. Few people ever consider this an important step, but this is really where the analysis result can be heavily distorted if you’re not careful. During Sharkfest 2016 I talked about how important the capture process and it’s preparations […]
  9. How to Use Wireshark to Steal Passwords

    Wireshark is a great tool to capture network packets, and we all know that people use the network to login to websites like Facebook, Twitter or Amazon. So there must be passwords or other authorization data being transported in those packets, and here’s how to get them.
  10. The Megalodon Challenge

    This year at Sharkfest I offered a special capture file challenge I called “The Megalodon Challenge”. Other than the “normal” challenges you could find at The Reef it was not limited to the size of 100MB, and the solution cannot be reduced to a couple of words or numbers. After Sharkfest I was asked if […]