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Mastering Wireshark 2

You're reading from   Mastering Wireshark 2 Develop skills for network analysis and address a wide range of information security threats

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788626521
Length 326 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Remote capture setup

In this section, we'll take a look at the prerequisites for using remote capture, specifically with WinPcap, which is a Windows port of the libpcap library and the configuration of remote packet capture on the remote device.

Prerequisites

The first prerequisite is to install the pcap libraries. I'm using a Windows computer here as our test machine, so I'll install the WinPcap libraries, which are a Windows port of the libpcap libraries originally written for Linux. So what I'll do is go to https://www.winpcap.org/ and download the WinPcap libraries. Once it finishes downloading, I'll go ahead and just click on Next with the installer, and there's no need to customize...

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