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Read raw capture data from network socket...

asked 2020-09-10 17:56:29 +0000

Grimeton gravatar image

Hi,

I was wondering if I can run Wireshark on Windows and make it listen on a network socket for incoming raw data that it then logs?

I have something like this in mind:

tcpdump -i hn0 -w - | nc $windows_host $port

And then the Windows' Wireshark just works with what it gets?

That would save me the daemon on that machine...

I've seen that Wireshark can do "pipes". Are those named pipes? Maybe I could get something going with socat in Cygwin that redirects to a named pipe?

Thanks!

Cu

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Have you looked at Windows Netcat or using nc on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)?
Example here using nc on both ends.

Chuckc gravatar imageChuckc ( 2020-09-10 19:35:17 +0000 )edit

The part that puzzles me is how I get the data LIVE into Wireshark without storing it anywhere before... Else I could just store it into a file and copy the file over later.

Grimeton gravatar imageGrimeton ( 2020-09-10 20:12:10 +0000 )edit

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answered 2020-09-10 21:09:10 +0000

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Pipe to wireshark -k -i -
Example here on wiki

nc -l $windows_host $port | wireshark -k -i -
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Troubleshoot ncat and Windows firewall before piping to Wireshark.

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Chuckc gravatar imageChuckc ( 2020-09-10 21:15:50 +0000 )edit

Hello,

the last part is what was missing. I didn't know that Wireshark accepts stdin as "-" on the "-i" parameter.

Thanks!

KR,

G.

Grimeton gravatar imageGrimeton ( 2020-09-10 21:43:18 +0000 )edit

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