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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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Running dumpcap

In this section, we'll take a look at how to run dumpcap, which is another alternative to tshark and tcpdump.

Once again, we'll have to go to dumpcap. In this example, it is installed with Wireshark on the system, and if we do a directory listing, you'll see that dumpcap is indeed listed. Tshark is actually based on dumpcap, and so we can type dumpcap.exe --help or -h. If we take a look at the output, it looks very similar to tshark and Wireshark:

Depending on the system that you're using though, it may only have dumpcap available for one reason or another, or tshark may be using too much memory if it's a really small, embedded IoT system, or something like that. You could potentially use dumpcap to have an even lighter utility in order to capture traffic-or maybe you just like using this better. If we look at the arguments...

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