Hi Martin,
There is an option to set the remote interface in the wireshark. If my understanding is correct, any wireshark user can start capturing
packets from a remote machine using this option in wireshark. Am I right?
Of course, there must be some service running on the remote machine to which wireshark on my local box can hook on and read packets.
This way of sniffing (hacking?) can make any network vulnerable. At the same time, I cannot restrict the usage of wireshark tool itself
since this is #1 tool for packet capturing and very useful for my team to debug SIP call flows.
My suggestions for this issue are....
1. Disable/Remove the selection of “Remote” interface in the drop down thus allowing the user to only capture packets form/to his/her
Local machine.
2. Disable the check box “Capture packets in promiscuous mode”.
3. In worst case, individual developers must make sure that there is no service “Remote Packet Capture Protocol” running on their local
box.
Do you agree if this will satisfy my need?
If yes, how to disable these options (on Windows XP box)?
Thanks and regards,
Nag.
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Martin Visser
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 6:27 AM
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Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] Secured way of using Wireshark
Nag,
I'm not sure what you mean by your question. Capturing packets is for the most part passive, in that you are saving packets to a file for viewing. Wireshark does not propagate packets to the rest of the network, no matter how virus laden they are. (Certainly
as long as those packets are not specially crafted to maybe exploit a vulnerability in wireshark itself, which while it ihas been done, is very very rarely actually seen in the wild).
Regards, Martin
MartinVisser99@xxxxxxxxx
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Nagendrababu Maseedu <Nagendra.Babu.Maseedu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
Is there a way to capture packets from/to a selected list of IP address on a LAN?
The need is to restrict the packet capturing to a set of machines so that security breach does not happen on other machines on the same network.
Please let me know if you have any other mechanism to satisfy this need.
Kind regards,
Nag.
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