How to capture packets using wireshark

Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer.

To install Wireshark put this command to Terminal:

yum install Wireshark

After that you can use command:

tethereal -i eth0 -w /home/capture.pcap

To save a dump of packets.

Packets will be saved to directory /home/capture.pcap

You can send captured file capture.pcap from your server and open with

Wireshark GUI and analyse the packets.

You can analyse network packets on real time on server using command:

tshark

More options with command tshark you can find here:

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