ANNOUNCEMENT: Live Wireshark University & Allegro Packets online APAC Wireshark Training Session
April 17th, 2024 | 14:30-16:00 SGT (UTC+8) | Online

Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] noob question: linux vs windows difference

From: Sake Blok <sake@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:47:17 +0200
On 16 jul. 2012, at 07:53, Rustom Mody wrote:

> Now my ISP seems to have changed something (or else gnome changed something on an upgrade but that seems more unlikely)
> After that I cant login via linux but only via windows.
> 
> So current status is that I have to login to windows connect to login-site, reboot to linux and then net-browsing works on linux until powerdown.
> 
> So one general and one specific question:
> 
> 1. Is this kind of problem suitable to debug with wireshark?

Yes it is, you can see the whole conversation to the login page. When you capture logging in with windows and the attempt to log in with Linux, then you can compare the web requests to see what might be missing in the Linux one.

> 2. Can I find from a wireshark packet which process 'owns' it?  ie which process is the one that sent/intended to receive it?

No, wireshark can't. It has been a feature request for a while though :-)

Cheers,
Sake