Remote Real Time Packet Capture With Wireshark and pfsense

Networking & Firewalls
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Commands from video:
Make sure wireshark allows user to run dumppcap
sudo dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common (choose yes)
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/dumpcap

To Run Wireshark as root from a non-root user
sudo su -c 'wireshark -k -i <(ssh root@192.168.1.1 -p 22 tcpdump -i mvneta0 -U -w - )'

Run as user
wireshark -k -i <(ssh root@172.16.69.112 -p 222 tcpdump -i xn2 -U -w - )

Run as user exclude Tom computer ip of 192.168.3.9
wireshark -k -i <(ssh root@172.16.69.112 -p 222 tcpdump -i xn2 host not 192.168.3.9 -U -w - )

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Excuse my ignorance, but anyway to pull the VLAN tag information using this method?

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Yes, in the example below, adding the .1337 to the igb0 interface it will only capture VLAN 1337.

wireshark -k -i <(ssh root@192.168.3.1 -p 22 tcpdump -i igb0.1337 host not 192.168.3.9 -U -w - )

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Hello new here just signed up i wonder if this is possible on windows machine? thanks

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While I know there is a version of Wireshark for WIndows, https://www.wireshark.org/download.html I am not sure if the tcpdump will work.

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Thanks Tom for the reply im more used to linux distro now i think ill try to slowly move on that since im more on managing webservers etc on my work.still more windows on my workplace but our back-end is almost linux now :slight_smile: