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Wireshark crashes before opening

I am running a 64-bit Windows 7 Dell laptop, and just installed Wireshark 3.2.6. Whenever I tried to open Wireshark, it would crash with the error message below. I've restarted my laptop, reinstalled ...
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No traffic captured in wireshark in monitor mode npcap

I am using npcap drivers (latest 0.9995) on windows 7. I can set the mode of my wireless card to monitor mode using wlanhelper "Wifi interface" mode monitor. It changes to mon mode ...
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Windows 7 stops responding to TCP request after random time

Welcome everyone I'm looking for some tips (perfectly a solution :)) to a problem we are facing for a long time now. Basically: we have a client application which sits on a Windows Server 2012 and a ...
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Windows 7 stops sending DNS packets at seemingly random times

Pinging an IP directly (and just about any other direct IP connection) seems to pass through. On the other hand, when pinging a domain, using chrome to enter a website or attempting to use nslookup ...
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How to analyze the source of TCP Retransmissions

I am requesting a URL (so the following happens with a HTTP GET request) from Firefox 50.0.2 and I'm using the auto refresh feature with a 1 second timeout. I'm observing TCP retransmissions like this:...
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USB network adapter needs to be re-plugged every day

I have a Digitus USB 3.0 Gigabit Ethernet adapter which I use for monitoring network traffic of our device in the test lab. As such, it's connected to the mirroring port of my HP-1820-8G switch. ...
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where does Windows Task Manager measure network data rate

I am trying to build a 10Gbps Ethernet channel between an FPGA and a Windows 7 PC. For a rough estimate, I measured the bandwidth usage of the link using Windows Task Manager's Network Tab. Later I ...
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Force a process in Windows 7 to store capture in RAM without doing actual I/O operation and writing to the disk

I'm Using Wireshark's cyclic buffers configuration capturing mode: I am sniffing a 10Gig port, and I was expecting Wireshark to work cyclically with buffers on the DDR only, but apparently it doesn't....
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Wireshark does not pick up outbound traffic

I have a bit of 'n problem at a client. We are running a WCF Client/Server application, and for some reason when one of the users try to connect to the server, he gets a timeout, but the second time ...
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Real-time loopback interface packet capture on Windows with RawCap, Wireshark, and some pipe utility

After stumbling across another Super User post about loopback packet capture on Windows, I was directed to RawCap, a utility that provides pseudo-capture of loopback packets. RawCap writes to libpcap ...
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Bandwidth monitoring grouped by domain/process

Under Windows platform, what is the simplest way to achieve bandwidth monitoring with the following grouping use cases: monitor all incoming/outgoing bandwidth grouped by domain/ip (http requests ...
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Find out what programs are heavily using the network

Currently, I have a process on my Windows 7 system which is saturating the incoming broadband internet connection (75Mbit/s) and almost completely saturating the 100Mbit network controller. I cannot ...
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Lightweight network packet capture solution for windows? [closed]

I'm looking for a lightweight packet capture solution for Windows. It needs to capture all packets on a physical network device and write them to a file (preferably .pcap, because that's easiest for ...
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How to set intel centrino advanced-n 6205 in "monitor mode" in Windows 7 (32bit) and Wireshark

I've just installed Wireshark on my laptop and can't see it's working in "monitor mode". Logically I'm not connected with my home network, do I have to be able to monitor my ipads traffic? WinPCAP ...
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Windows 7 PC sends a lot of NetBIOS Name Queries for non-existent computer names

I have a Windows 7 PC, and have been monitoring network traffic using Wireshark, and I'm seeing this PC send out a lot of NetBIOS Name Queries for non-existent computer names. These are some of the ...
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