I'm trying to view my WAN network traffic in wireshark but so far failing. I'm in the UK and I have a broadband router that goes to a modem (a bt openreach standard fttc modem). I've put a hub between the modem and the router and connected a pc to the hub as well. I'm running wireshark on the pc but I don't see any modem traffic, I think the problem is the ip address on the pc. All I see in wireshark is the pc's own ip address, I've set the wireshark filter to exclude the pc's own ip and there's nothing showing, there should be loads of traffic showing as I have several machines all on the internet through the modem.
What ip address and subnet mask should I put into the pc to see the traffic? I've tried 192.168.x.x/255.255.255.0, didn't work, also tried 172.16.1x.x/255.255.0.0 and 10.0.x.x/255.00.0.0 and they didn't work either.

What model hub did you put between the modem and the router? Are you sure it's not a switch?

netgear fs116, oh damn it says fast ethernet switch. Does that mean I'm using the wrong hardware?

Yes. You'll need a managed switch that allows you to configure a "mirror" port that will present all the traffic passing through the switch.

However if you've two ethernet interfaces on the PC then you may be able to put THAT in between router and the modem.

Google "linux mirror network port" and you may get some ideas.

ok thanks, I have an old cisco router with a managed switch in it so I'll try mirroring the port traffic with that.

Let us know how you get on.

yeah that worked, bit of a polava to connect up but I now see all traffic through the modem.

Cool. Glad you got sorted.