

In such case, it may help to disable the functionality in the firewall/antivirus control panel.Īnother possibility could be to set up a software bridge consisting of two network cards and capture at one of the members while the antivirus/firewall should interfere with the virtual interface connected to the bridge. If there is no such item, it still does not mean that the firewall or antivirus does not do this if there is, disabling it before starting to capture may solve your issue. So go to network adapter settings and check whether, in the list of protocols and other items, you cannot disable a filter bearing the name of your anti-virus or firewall software. Now even if Wireshark (via WinPcap) successfully switches the network interface to promiscuous mode, there may be an anti-virus/firewall filter hooked to that interface and drop packets which do not match local MAC and/or IP address even though the packet filter does let them through, and this filter may be "closer to the wire" than WinPcap's own capturing "filter".

WCAP file as usual.As you wrote that your hub is a real one, not a switch bearing a label "hub", it is a correct way of thinking that the issue may be related to the capturing machine and that promiscuous mode might be switched off. In Eye P.A., click File > Open File., and open the.

Move it to your Windows PC with Dropbox, BitTorrent Sync, Google Drive, or sneakernet (thumbdrive), or move it to your Windows virtual machine on your Mac.Ĩ. The Wireless Diagnostics Tool will now capture packets on the channel, until you click Stop.ħ. OS X will prompt you for your password, since admin rights are needed to put the WiFi adapter in monitor mode.Ħ. Select the channel and channel width that you want to capture, and click Start.ĥ. Type in Wireless Diagnostics, and press enter when it appears at the top of the list in SpotlightĤ. On a Mac, it is possible to capture with a normal, built-in Apple wireless card, since macOS properly supports monitor mode.įollow these instructions to perform a wireless packet capture in macOS.ġ.

In Windows, a compatible Wi-Fi adapter or RiverBed AirPcap NX is required for packet capture.
