Questions tagged [wireshark]
Wireshark is a program for capturing and analyzing network traffic.
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How to install driver for TP-Link TL-WN722N on Ubuntu 14.04?
Hi I am new to Ubuntu and Linux. As I am developing a WiFi product, I want to capture the WiFi traffic wirelessly with Wireshark. Having some searching in the web, I know that I can do that with a USB ...
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How do I run wireshark, with root-privileges?
A standard installation of Wireshark doesn't give the program permission to access the network interface.
I suppose I have to run the program with sudo, but do not know how to add it to the icon - ...
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How to install Wireshark
I am new to Linux and have a need to install Wireshark 2.0.0 on VirtualBox's Xubuntu 14.04.
I have already downloaded .tar.gz package and extracted it. Then I opened terminal in the wireshark folder ...
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How can I capture network traffic of a single process?
I would like to examine the network traffic being handled by a single process, but simple network captures won't work since I am dealing with such a busy system (lots of other traffic happening at the ...
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There are no interfaces on which a capture can be done
I'm using Ubuntu 13.04.
Wireshark won't show me any logs, won't function at all. I'm connected to my WiFi, Belkin router.
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How to run Wireshark on Ubuntu 17.10
I used to run wireshark on ubuntu 17.04 with
~/$ sudo wireshark
but now (just after update to 17.10) when I write the same I get an error
~/$ sudo wireshark
QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not ...
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running wireshark "Lua: Error during loading"
By running wireshark in 14.04 I got this error What should I do to solve this?
Lua: Error during loading:
[string "/usr/share/wireshark/init.lua"]:46: dofile has been disabled due to running ...
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How to remove Wireshark from my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?
I installed an application called Wireshark, using:
sudo apt-get install wireshark
I searched it and launched it. Then, I tried to uninstall it using GUI. But it is not removing.
I tried using:
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Wireshark - allow non-root user to sniff USB traffic
I'm trying to capture data transferred across a USB connection to reverse-engineer the protocol used. I'm using wireshark to do this, which explicitly warns against running as root. So far, I've ...
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wireshark problem while loading or opening wireshark qt.qpa.plugin
av_acharya@AnoxBotox:/$ wireshark
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not find the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "path/to/plugins"
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin ...
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How to enable Wireshark without running as root in Trusty 14.04
I installed Wireshark. Running as root is not recommended, so
I Did
sudo dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common
According to:
http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/CapturePrivileges
http://anonscm....
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I'm not able to use wireshark "couldn't run /usr/bin/dumpcap in child process" [duplicate]
This message appears:
No interface can be used for capturing in this system with the current configuration.
(couldn't run /usr/bin/dumpcap in child process: permission denied)
Tell me how to avoid ...
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What is the difference between `groups $USER`and `groups` in a terminal?
When I run the the following command in a terminal I get different output.
I try to find out if I am a member of the Wireshark group.
groups $USER
Does list wireshark
groups
Does not list ...
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Wifi interface mode switches automatically back to managed (Ubuntu 20.04)
If I take the wifi interface offline: sudo ifconfig device_name down.
Then switch the mode to monitor: sudo iwconfig device_name mode monitor.
And then bring the device back online: sudo ifconfig ...
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