User Guide

Capturing Live Network Data
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Null authentication Select this if you don't need authentication to take place for a
remote capture to be started. This depends on the target platform.
Configuring the target platform like this makes it insecure.
Password authentication This is the normal way of connecting to a target platform. Set the
credentials needed to connect to the Remote Packet Capture Protocol
service.
4.8.2. Remote Capture Settings
The remote capture can be further fine tuned to match your situation. The Remote Settings button in
Figure 4.4, “The "Edit Interface Settings" dialog box” gives you this option. It pops up the dialog shown
in Figure 4.10, “The "Remote Capture Settings" dialog box”.
Figure 4.10. The "Remote Capture Settings" dialog box
You can set the following parameters in this dialog:
Do not capture own RPCAP
traffic
This option sets a capture filter so that the traffic flowing back
from the Remote Packet Capture Protocol service to Wireshark isn't
captured as well and also send back. The recursion in this saturates
the link with duplicate traffic.
You only should switch this off when capturing on an interface
other then the interface connecting back to Wireshark.
Use UDP for data transfer Remote capture control and data flows over a TCP connection. This
option allows you to choose an UDP stream for data transfer.