I installed Wireshark to use as a parenting tool. :-) We just gave my 12-yr-
old a hand-me-down laptop with wifi. We have some net-nanny-type
software on it to try to keep him on a rather short leash, but occasionally we
have to turn it off to let him do homework/etc research. I want to keep a
clandestine eye on him while he does. (He is a really good kid, but he once
filled a computer with viruses while he was surfing for porn -- not appropriate
for a kid!! He needs some supervision and monitoring. I want to keep an
eye on what he does when "off the leash.")
So anyway. I've figured out how to monitor packets. If I look at my own
system, I can filter on my IP, and I can even do a Statistics report (filtering on
"ip.addr == 192.168.1.106 and http") to find the HTTP hosts I'm hitting. So
far so good, if a bit manual.
Problems: I don't seem to get the http requests from his wifi connection on
my hard-wired PC. I get a few things like registration and ICMP requests,
but I don't see HTTP requests. Why some but not others? Do I have to
monitor his wifi connection from another wifi connection?
Also, the http Statistics report produces a lot more data than I want, no
surprise. E.g. if I browse to site A, which has graphics downloaded from
sites B-Z, the report shows me requests for sites A-Z.
Is there any way to narrow the report down to ONLY the sites HE
REQUESTS, either by typing in a URL or by clicking on a link? And is there
a better way to do this than the stumbling around I've done?
Thanks,
Careful Dad
