Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Add support for remote capture in linux

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Or look at rpcapd: https://www.winpcap.org/docs/docs_40_2/html/group__remote.html

On 2 October 2015 at 11:57, Roland Knall <rknall@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi

Would it not be easier to achieve this using an extcap interface? You can see the extcap_example in /doc as well as androiddump for examples. Such interfaces can be configured with a separate options dialog and are quite versatile, and most of all, it does not need you to change dumpcap in a way that it is still working across multiple systems.

regards,

Roland

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Dario Lombardo <dario.lombardo.ml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi list

Remote capture is not currently supported by the current wireshark under linux. This can be achieved by ssh + pipe like this

ssh host 'dumpcap -i bla -w -' | wireshark

that works flawlessly but is not very user friendly. From the "remote interfaces" in linux it is stated that remote capture is not supported.

So I decided to implement the above command programmatically, in order to have a remote capture under linux too.

As far as I can see this task has to be split in 2 major tasks: adding a remote ssh support to dumpcap, and add a dialog to handle those option in the UIs.

I started with the first task. Using libssh I created a connection to an ssh server that writes to a temporary named pipe (it's a child), while the "main" dumpcap reads as usual from that. All seems to work as expected. But before going further on I'd like to share with you what I've done so far. I pushed a draft change here

https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/10740/

Some examples of use of this support

dumpcap -i ssh://sshhost/eth0

dumpcap -i ssh://sshhost:sshport/eth2

dumpcap -i ssh://sshhost/eth0 --remote-dumpcap-bin /another/bin/dumpcap

dumpcap -i ssh://sshhost:ssh -A user:strongpassword -w /tmp/sshhost-capture.pcap

What still WIP:

- manual

- autotools

- nmake

Comments, suggestions, ideas appreciated. I'd suggest to give specific code comments on gerrit, and keep the generic discussion here.

Thanks for your help.

Dario.

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Graham Bloice