You also have the option to setup a Shark Appliance to capture
data off the network span or port tap. Then you can use Pilot Console to
remotely attach to the Shark Appliance. Pilot Console is an enhanced Wireshark
visual analysis toolset. You can display, drill down, rewind, run alerts or
report network events. Check it out at http://www.cacetech.com/
From:
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[mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Forthofer
Russ
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 12:36 PM
To: 'Community support list for Wireshark'
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] Capturing network traffic using wireshark
remotely
Remote capture is a really cool, recent feature, but probably
not applicable here. It would allow you to run rpcapd on Machine1 (or 2),
and then run Wireshark on Machine3 - using Machine1's interfaces as the capture
points. If you don't already have Winpcap installed on Machine1, you
would need to do that. Then you would need to start rpcapd. Based
on your statement that you don't want to change/install anything, this is
probably not the way to go.
The only way to do this non-intrusively (AFAIK) is to span
(mirror) the port on the switch. You could also install a network tap at
one of the devices (Machine1 or 2), but this would require a momentary network
interruption.
From: wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of sean bzd
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 3:22 PM
To: Community support list for Wireshark
Subject: [Wireshark-users] Capturing network traffic using wireshark
remotely
Folks,
Need some advice/help here.
3 Windows machines all connected to the same Cisco Switch.
Machine1 and Machine2 are exchanging some data that need to
be captured. Ideally, I could install wireshark on either Machine1 or Machine2
and capture all the traffic being exchanged between the two. But since these
are production machines, we don't want to change/install anything on these 2
machines. Is there a way I can install wireshark on Machine3 and capture the
traffic between Machine1 and Machine2? I know I can do port mirroring on the
Cisco switch and capture it from Machine3. But, question is can I get the
capture without doing port mirroring? I see that the capture Options dialog box
in wireshark has an option for Local Vs. Remote interface? What is it used for?
Has anyone used this before?
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