Once you've identified the correct interface, select the checkbox on the left-hand side of that interface and click on the Start button at the bottom of the Capture Interfaces window. If you're still unsure, open a browser window and navigate to one of your favorite websites and watch the packets and packets/s counters to identify the interface that shows the greatest increase in activity. Another possible indicator is if an interface has an IP address assigned and others do not. The most reliable indicator of the active network interface is that it will have greater number of steadily increasing packets with a corresponding active number of packets/s (which will vary over time).
If you have a wired local area network connection and the interface is enabled, that's probably the active interface, but you might also have a wireless interface that is enabled and you may or may not be the primary interface. The goal is to identify the active interface that will be used to communicate with the Internet when you open a browser and navigate to a website. However, in most cases, you'll only be interested in capturing packets from a network interface. Open the plugin directory in file explorer.Ĭopy the F5 wireshark plugin that you downloaded from devcentral.f5.com to the plugins directory you found in the Help, About Wireshark options.ĭepending on your OS and Wireshark version, you will need the correct plugin files from the correct folder.Ĭheck the plugins tab again and make sure the F5 plugin is installed.On Linux/Unix/Mac platforms, you might also see a loopback interface that can be selected to capture packets being sent between applications on the same machine. Start Wireshark by double clicking the shortcut on the desktop.Ĭlick on the plugins tab and check to see what directory the plugins are installed to. In the lab the plugin is already downloaded to /home/f5student/Downloads/wireshark/. You can download the F5 Wireshark plugin from devcentral.f5.com here. If you have a version before 3.0 of wireshark you will need to download and install the F5 Wireshark plugin.
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