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Re: Secured way of using Wireshark
From: Nagendrababu Maseedu <Nagendra.Babu.Maseedu () convergys com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:21:21 +0530
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. ________________________________ From: wireshark-users-bounces () wireshark org [mailto:wireshark-users-bounces () wireshark org] On Behalf Of Martin Visser Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 6:27 AM To: Community support list for Wireshark 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 () gmail com<mailto:MartinVisser99 () gmail com> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Nagendrababu Maseedu <Nagendra.Babu.Maseedu () convergys com<mailto:Nagendra.Babu.Maseedu () convergys com>> 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. ________________________________ NOTICE: The information contained in this electronic mail transmission is intended by Convergys Corporation for the use of the named individual or entity to which it is directed and may contain information that is privileged or otherwise confidential. If you have received this electronic mail transmission in error, please delete it from your system without copying or forwarding it, and notify the sender of the error by reply email or by telephone (collect), so that the sender's address records can be corrected. ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-users mailing list <wireshark-users () wireshark org<mailto:wireshark-users () wireshark org>> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-users Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-users mailto:wireshark-users-request () wireshark org<mailto:wireshark-users-request () wireshark org>?subject=unsubscribe ________________________________ NOTICE: The information contained in this electronic mail transmission is intended by Convergys Corporation for the use of the named individual or entity to which it is directed and may contain information that is privileged or otherwise confidential. If you have received this electronic mail transmission in error, please delete it from your system without copying or forwarding it, and notify the sender of the error by reply email or by telephone (collect), so that the sender's address records can be corrected.
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