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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Sniffing BitTorrent traffic?

From: "Phillips, Christopher M" <cmphil@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:30:20 +0100
A good amount of modern clients encrypt their traffic to attempt to get
around deep packet inspection by isps etc. 

I suggest you download utorrent and generate some traffic with and
without the encryption and compare.
Uttorrent->options->preferences->bittorrent->encryption.

I would also point out most trackers have strict rules about what client
software type and version are permitted to connect.  
If you want a pure client to test with (with source code) try the
original python client.

-Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kirk True
Sent: 12 August 2009 23:09
To: wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Wireshark-users] Sniffing BitTorrent traffic?

Hi all,

I'm looking at sniffing the requests that various BitTorrent clients 
make in order to improve my prototype client. I started off using 
Wireshark but I can't get it to reliably recognize BitTorrent messages. 
Interestingly the messages my prototype BitTorrent client generates are 
parseable in Wireshark while those interchanged between Transmission are

not.

Ideas?

Thanks,
Kirk

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