How packet is transmitted over the network? [closed]

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 4 years ago. Improve this question I am writing discrete event-driven simulator to measure time between sending datasets over network. If multiple processes sends n packets through network they … Read more

Why do different packet analyzers sometimes produce different results?

I ran wireshark and windump at the same time. Both packet analyzers use the same winpcap library. However after doing a row by row comparison of the results I noticed both every column between the 2 matches except for the protocol and info columns, 40% of the protocol column values did not match even though … Read more

How many data packets does it take to log in to facebook? [closed]

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 7 years ago. Improve this question I want to find out how many packets are sent when visiting a site on the web. What’s a good program that would … Read more

Why is my chunked request removing the trailing CRLF?

I’ve just spent the past 10 hours trying to figure out why my http request was failing when I did a request.Content.ReadAsMultipartAsync().Result.Contents It kept returning the error: Unexpected end of MIME multipart stream. MIME multipart message is not complete. After many hours of research, I finally discovered that the request did not have an ending … Read more

pktmon : Failed to add filter: The system cannot find the file specified

Why am I getting these errors? PS > pktmon filter add -i 216.239.32.10 pktmon : Failed to add filter: The system cannot find the file specified. At line:1 char:1 + pktmon filter add -i 216.239.32.10 + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (Failed to add f…file specified.:String) [], RemoteException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandError PS > pktmon … Read more

Simple IP load balancer for web service that runs on Windows XP or Windows 7 Professional?

I’ve a closed code application that needs to connect to a web service that needs to run on XPs or Windows 7 (desktop). The application can only connect to a single IP address. The application is low volume – less than 1000 HTTP GETs a day. The system flow is: Client application –> HTTP –> … Read more

block all packets in windows 7 (so nothing appears in wireshark)? Can anything locally installed do it?

is it possible to block all packets in windows 7, so that nothing appears in wireshark? I have tried choosing Block all for incoming. for outgoing, I see it has no block all option, just a block option so it’s a whitelist. I tried that and disabling all the allow rules in incoming and outgoing. … Read more

Wireshark not displaying GET or POST data [closed]

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 8 years ago. Improve this question I’m a student and I’m taking my first networking class. I’m working on an assignment designed to get me used to using Wireshark … Read more

Is it Possible to Capture All HTTP Packets to a Target IP on a subnet?

I’ve been trying to use tcpdump to capture packets to a target IP on my subnet, but am unable to do so successfully. I’ve tried: tcpdump -i eth0 net network-ip-address/27 -A and tcp port 80 But it only gives me the packets I send from my IP to the target IP, not the packets other … Read more

Capturing network traffic (rtmp) between VMs or using loopback in the same VM using wireshark

I need to to capture RTMP traffic between two virtual machines (server and client) or atleast have the server and client on the same machine and capture the traffic. I am able to capture the traffic if I run wireshark on the host rather than on the VMs. But I need to capture it on … Read more