What is PCAPdroid used for?

Is there a Wireshark for Android?

I'm looking for an alternative to Wireshark (which, while nice, seems to lack features that make it worth having). There's WireShark for Android, but this just has a capture and dump interface - no live inspection. So I'm looking for something like Wireshark, but for Android. Does such a thing exist? Not exactly what you asked for, but there are a few other options. First up is the built in sniffing functionality. If you have wifi/ethernet, then you can connect your phone to your home router/network, or you can use WiFi analyzer, which will do sniffing for you and make it easy.

However, if you don't have wireless network access, then this isn't an option. The best option is to use the built in adb debugging functionality of the device. With a USB cable attached, you can connect to the device via adb and run the commands there, and you can also take screenshots, dump memory, etc.

While this is much less intrusive than sniffing and might not be what you want, it is still a way to monitor traffic. However, it is limited in what it can actually do. For example, it can't look at things like http traffic because it's not running a web server, and it can't do anything with packet dumps because it is only doing a read-only dump.

What app opens PCAP files?

The application to which you're trying to connect when the error occurs, if you have such an application, does open PCAP files.

You should test if that's the case by trying to open them manually with your favorite pcap reader app. If the same app won't open it, you need to check that the app has the appropriate rights. On Windows you can also try the following:
Open c:windowssystem32driversetcsecurityLocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy.inf If it opens the file it probably has the appropriate rights. If it doesn't, try to run LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy from the command line in your CMD console and you'll get some errors. These are usually about missing DLL files. You may be able to resolve this by either using a compatible version of Microsoft Security Essentials (I was having the same problem with a clean install of Windows 7), or re-installing your application, or updating DLLs or any other missing files.

When you get errors you don't understand, you should ask your support folks.

What is PCAPdroid used for?

PCAPdroid uses Wireshark to grab and process wireless frames.

As more and more wireless devices become available, developers are starting to build applications that will use Wireshark to process packets from WiFi networks. PCAPdroid will give you Wireshark GUI with support for capturing and processing 802.11, Bluetooth and other types of frames. PCAPdroid will work with other packages such as wireshark-cassette, pcapadev and pcapgui.py install

Configuring network device information in Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Vista. To configure what network device you are using for wireless capture, just follow these steps: Select your network adapter that can be found under Windows Control Panel > Network and Internet > Local Area Connection > Your Adapter > Properties. Click on the Properties button. Go to the General tab. Edit the property IP address and enter your public IP address (for example: 123.45.67.89)
Click on the OK button. Restart your computer. Setting up the Wireless settings. After you have properly configured your network adapter as stated above, it is time to start with setting up the PCAPdroid wireless settings. There are two ways how we could do that. You can either modify the file /etc/Wireless/network or add the settings directly through Wireless Settings panel in network adapter properties.

Method 1.