Wireshark and Tshark

There are various ways to tap a Wireshark to a linux instance in order to observe live communication. Here below I am utilising named-pipes where tcpdump is redirecting its output to.

Prerequisites - Allow root SSH on Ubuntu Edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config to allow root password logins through ssh. As shown below, comment out #PermitRootLogin without-password and add PermitRootLogin yes.

# Authentication:
LoginGraceTime 120
#PermitRootLogin without-password
PermitRootLogin yes

Create named pipe on a system A where Wireshark is installed

sudo mkfifo /tmp/remote

Read from the pipe on system A to Wireshark

sudo wireshark -k -i /tmp/remote

Connect to system B as root user to a remote node then redirect tcpdump output to the named pipe over ssh to system A

ssh root@monior-this-host.com "tcpdump -s 0 -U -n -w - -i eth0 not port 22" > /tmp/remote

Filters

Operators

! - no, && - and, || - or

No STP, No Arp, No ipv6, no nbns, no DHCP

!stp && !arp && !ipv6 && !dhcpv6 && !nbns && !bootp.option.type == 53

Allow non-root (current) user to run tcpdump

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# NOTE: This will let anyone who belongs to the 'pcap' group
# execute 'tcpdump'

# NOTE2: User running the script MUST be a sudoer. It is
# convenient to be able to sudo without a password.

sudo groupadd pcap
sudo usermod -a -G pcap $USER
sudo chgrp pcap /usr/sbin/tcpdump
sudo setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin=eip /usr/sbin/tcpdump
sudo ln -s /usr/sbin/tcpdump /usr/bin/tcpdump