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Corruption in the network stack

Hi, What could cause WireShark to show (example) 'xxxxxxxxxxx' on the sending machine, and then show 'xxxxxxxxxii' on the receiving machine? Note that it's not WireShark showing wrong data, the data is actually corrupted when it arrives, causing our TCP/IP protocol to get out of sync. This is not the real data sent, but this is the pa...

how do you decrypt SSH .pcap file that uses Diffie Hellman ecryption. With public and private keys.

how do you decrypt SSH .pcap file that uses Diffie Hellman ecryption. With public and private keys. We are trying through Wireshark with no luck. please advise. ...

Tool for network traffic analysis of a custom protocol

The protocol is very simple and is developed on top of TCP. I need to analyze a big libpcap dump file to calculate the average value and standard deviation of the conversation time and of the number of packets per conversation. Using Wireshark it's simple to analyze the TCP conversations between the endpoints, but the summary includes a...

cURL,WireShark. Setting headers to post data and get xml.

Here is the dump from WireShark: POST /drm/drm_production_v2.php HTTP/1.1 content-length: 278 content-type: text/xml User-Agent: UserAgent 1.0 Connection: Keep-Alive Authorization: Basic dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ= host: www.example.com <methodCall> <methodName>aMethod</methodName> <params> <param> <value> <b...

Find simultaneous connection through wireshark

Hi, Just finish reading Steve Souder's blog post related to max. simultaneous connection allow on modern browser. I wanted to see for myself on how many simultaneous connection firefox uses to connect to our company web site. In Steve's blog, in mentioned that he was able to find out the number of simultaneous connection through some ...

How can I decode SQL Server traffic with wireshark?

I can capture the packets using wireshark, but I can't decode the stream into anything intelligible. This bug suggests that maybe this isn't possible in SQL Server 2005 or newer... https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3098, but several people on Stack Overflow claimed this was a good method in answers to this question: h...

Wireshark integration with Qt

For my handheld embedded device I want to use WireShark network analyser to measure the Data, VOIP and IPTV performance testing. But I don't want all the features of WireShark. So I'm planning to use the WireShark library API and for the GUI, I am planning to use Qt. Can anyone comment on this? Is this the right decision? The platform I'...

wireshark pluginds

Do you know a website that has latest security issue for wireshark that need a solution. I know wireshark mailing list but is there another website than this? my teacher is asking us to report 5 problem that need to develop a plugin for wireshark. Thank you, ...

Read the information my computer is sending on an ssl connection

I would like to read the information a java application in firefox is sending to a website over an ssl connection. I am using WireShark, and I believe that if I can somehow tell tell wireshark what encryption key firefox is using, then wireshark will be able to decrypt the ssl messages. Then I will exactly what information this website...

Protocol reverse engineering / Reproduce HTTP dialogue

Hello everyone, For the specific needs of a project, I have to interface some of my code with other closed-source code. My idea is to understand how the original application communicates and then mimic the behaviour. I have already done the first step, which is analysing some HTTP exchanges (done using POST request and XML replies) with...

Does wireshark support web frontend ?

I'm looking for a wireshark web front end that can diplay the content of a pcap file in the similar way as wireshark . The purpose of doing it is that we can setup a pcap repository for certain protocol that can be shared between a develop team . ...

Is there an API for Wireshark, to develop programs/plugins that interact with it/enhance it?

Googling didn't give me great results. Is there any sort of API for Wireshark that abstracts away from the main source code so we can develop programs that interact with it and deal with the data it provides? edit: I appreciate the suggestions for different ways to receive packets, but I want to implement packet injection into Wiresha...

transmitted data scrambled, Wireshark cannot read

Hey, I'm having an issue with a TCP transmission using C# sockets. I wrote a test client/echo server program and tested what Wireshark can read out from the network. The data I send is precisely the data I get echoed back. The data I send is normal strings. However, when communicating with the actual server, I send a request and get a re...

How to throttle network traffic for environment simulation?

Hello! I'm trying to test an application that uses a database connection. What I would like to do is throttling the bandwith to, say, 1 MBit or such to get a better feeling for the application under realistic conditions. I already use Wireshark to have a look at the communication with the DB and I expected Wireshark to have a feature l...

UDP Raw Data differ in application and wireshark

We are developing a application to recieve UDP broadcast from a third party application. Wireshark shows packets of 512 bytes. Each packet have header information. Below is 8 bytes as wireshark shows 01 00 5E 01 02 05 00 11 I have created a small consol based application C# to listen on that specific port. Below is what i am geeting ...

Is there a way to save a reassembled TCP in Wireshark

I am trying so sniff a multi-part POST request using Wireshark. When viewing the capture I can select "Reassembled TCP" which looks to contain the header and all the data in the transmission. However I can't seem to select the entire thing to save it. If I go back to the frame view i can select the frame, which usually selects the entire...

Is there a way to programatically export files using Wireshark's facilities?

Hi everyone. I am trying to automate a repetitive manual process for which I use WireShark: 1) Load a given pcap file 2) Apply a simple filter for a given protocol 3) Use the export dialog box to export the displayed packets to CSV file 4) Use the export dialog box to export the displayed packets in XML PDML form. This is tedious, a...

not getting xml response on wireshark

i am programming i qt and need to get xml response. iam unable to see the xml response on wireshark.my os is ubuntu and i have set the xml filter on wireshark.please help.thanks. ...

how to customize the filter when following a stream in wireshark?

when selecting a packet and choosing to follow the stream, wireshark automatically sets a filter that looks something like this: (ip.addr eq 10.2.3.8 and ip.addr eq 10.2.255.255) and (udp.port eq 999 and udp.port eq 899). i'd like to be able to set that myself when following the stream, but have not been able to identify where to do that...

How do I filter SQL Server traffic between app and DB servers using Wireshark?

I'm trying to identify the source of some ill-timed connection resets. I'm trying to use Wireshark to capture the traffic that goes between the application server and database server. How do I set up a filter for this in Wireshark? ...