[vbox-dev] Cannot Live-capture VirtualBox network packets with Wireshark

Knut St. Osmundsen knut.osmundsen at oracle.com
Wed Jun 8 07:15:10 GMT 2011


Since there seems to be a wireshark bug and the bug already contains a patch, I don't think we need to do anything.

Cheers,
 Knut.

On Jun 7, 2011, at 11:34 PM, Alexey Eromenko wrote:

> It turns out, that Wireshark, when in pipe/FIFO mode, dislike
> VirtualBox habit to create first "empty" packet, with pcap header
> only.
> 
> VirtualBox generates first Ethernet frame incorrectly. That's why
> Wireshark woos.
> 
> More detail:
> Bug 6002 - Cannot Live-capture VirtualBox network packets with
> Wireshark; pipe problem
> https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6002
> 
> It would help me, if VirtualBox could fix it for 4.1.0
> 
> -- 
> -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"
> 
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