

Unless you have special networking equipment, this can be difficult. While Wireshark does a great job of capturing every packet that flows past it, in some cases you’ll need to analyze a session from a remote server.

Sometimes it’s easier to capture traffic on the remote server, then analyze it on your desktop. While Wireshark does a great job of capturing every network packet that flows past it, in some cases you’ll need to analyze a session from a remote server. Sometimes the easiest solution is to use tcpdump to capture traffic on the remote server, and then run Wireshark to take a look at it. Unless you have professional networking equipment, it’s hard to analyze traffic that doesn’t involve your computer. Wireshark is a powerful tool, but it has its limitations.
