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How to run wireshark/tshark or tcpdump to capture packets inside IPMininet using screen

Posted on April 6, 2024 by SoCRaT

This has been a bit confusing for some time, but after you run your ipmininet network with Python, you want to capture some packets with wireshark/tshark or tcpdump, here is the way you can do it: Let’s assume we have … Continue reading →

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Allow non-root users to capture network packets with Wireshark on Ubuntu

Posted on February 28, 2017 by SoCRaT

It’s very easy to do, all you need is just add your user to the wireshark group, e.g. sudo adduser hobba wireshark so this makes user hobba able to capture packets without requiring sudo privileges. Enjoy! Tested on LinuxMint 18.1 … Continue reading →

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How to allow non-root user to capture packets with Wireshark on Ubuntu 16.04

Posted on August 28, 2016 by SoCRaT

Only two steps you need to do: “sudo dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common” (choose yes to allow Dumpcap to make the wireshark group members able to capture packets) “sudo adduser USERNAME wireshark” to add your user to the wireshark group Then you just need … Continue reading →

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