Hi I am trying run wireshark and in one of the document it says that "packet socket" has to be enabled.

How do I go about listing if this is enabled in the kernel
How do I enable this if this is not

Thanks and Regards

You don't say which distribution you're using, but most come with capture support built in by default these days. It's possible it's a privileges issue, in which case https://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSe...turePrivileges should help.

--jeremy

Hi Jeremy, thanks for the reply and sorry it is fedora 21 (64bit)

it seems all the setting and tools are installed as per the URL

I am trying to sniff out all the traffic that is running about in my network (what ny network card see), I am running Wireshark in promiscuous mode and with no filters, yet all I can see is broadcast and unicast and traffic that is going out and in from my machine. I have tried with no firewall with no luck

Any idea to what is causing whether I am doing this wrong some other!

Thanks and Best Regards

Most likely you are seeing all the traffic sent to your card. A switch or router won't send packets that are addressed to a different port.

So I faild to see that point, yes I am on a switch . How do I go about capturing all the traffic with out been the router it self, seems you cant

Thanks Smallpond

Best Regards