How do I enable monitor mode in Wireshark?
I need to use Wireshark on a particular machine (the target machine) to capture the packets on another computer's network interface. I can start Wireshark using gtkterm to run from the target machine, and capture on the target machine's interface. How do I enable monitor mode so I can capture on that interface's connection? You just start wireshark as you normally would. Then, when you see a new interface, you'll have to make it active by clicking on it. Once it's active, you can then start capturing packets from that interface.
See the Wireshark user manual.
How to monitor traffic in Wireshark?
Many times I use Wireshark as my traffic sniffer.
There are many tools to help you view and analyze HTTP Traffic but one of the problems of using Wireshark is the fact that many times it show in a way so confusing that you cannot find out your target URL. To solve this problem, I use the Wireshark extension Euresia: It does all the hard work for you, with just one click, it can monitor all ports with just one click and save them too! It is not like other traffic sniffers, it is only useful for HTTP/HTTPS traffic monitoring. With one click you will have your log files created with their full time and source IP address. You don't need to be a hacker or any type of expert to monitor your network traffic. Just follow the wizard and be amazed of how easy and precise is that tool.
How to install it? To install Euresia and have your system working correctly and have the logging file on each connection make sure that you installed the latest version. The default version of Euresia available in their website, but to see what else is available and what are the latest updates visit their Euresia web-page and check the download links. To have Wireshark up and running, it is important to make sure that Wireshark service is started during installation process or otherwise will not work properly. Make sure that you have configured Euresia correctly to capture traffic on port 80 and 8100 TCP/UDP by selecting these options:
Step 2. How to configure port 80? In step 4 of the wizard there is only the option that makes the port 80 available on your network for traffic interception. Go to the next screen and follow instructions to choose destination IP address and port number if you want to monitor all traffic in your PC. Here are the screenshots:
Step 3. How to configure port 8100? After configuring Port 8100 as well, click OK button to save configuration. Now click next button. Select a name for your new log file and press the Next button.
Step 5. How to monitor traffic of a specific subnet? It is very important to configure this option because not everyone would want to capture all HTTP/HTTPS traffic from their computer.
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