Any help or easy setup's to get me capturing traffic is appreciated as well. On this subject, they say it's very operating system and adapter specific. Is having Npcap working with Wireshark enough? Do I have to do some manual procedure? And yes I've read the Wireshark wiki.

I have Npcap installed rather than WinpCap. Now the trouble I'm running into is not entirely knowing if I've enabled it or not on the adapter. So I went ahead and ordered the same one to make sure it can enable monitor mode. Up until 4:30, he's explaining one that he uses that has worked for him in the past. I've watched from TheNewBoston's Wireshark tutorial that told me some adapters just don't have an option to turn on promiscuous mode (or in this case, I think he means monitor mode). This has led me to many forums telling me to enable monitor mode on my adapter. I believe it shouldn't be that hard to have my wireless adapter simply capture the traffic even if it doesn't have its IP address.

What I mean is that wifi sends out the packets in a wide range. I've since changed my focus to capturing wireless packets because it appears a wireless access point doesn't have the same restrictive filtering as my switch. And turning on promiscuous mode doesn't change the result here.Īnd unfortunately, there is not a port on the switch which is specific for network analysis. However, I believe the reason I'm not capturing any packets on that interface is that my router has a switch topology meaning it won't send any packets to the port my ethernet cable is connected to unless it's designated for my computer or it's a broadcast message. I've initially attempted to capture packets through ethernet. (Skip down to TL DR for a quick explanation) Hello, there! I'm relatively new to these forums, so please give feedback in a positive manner! Recently I've been trying to capture internet traffic between hosts other than my own in my network.

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