

The easiest way to do this is to select Start WinPcap service "NPF" at startup in the Wireshark installer. Start the NPF driver automatically at system start There are three possible solutions to start Wireshark with the privilege to capture:ĭisadvantage: It's very unsecure running Wireshark this way as every possible Wireshark exploit will be running with the administrator account being able to compromise the whole system. Please note that this is not a limitation of the Wireshark implementation, but of the underlying WinPcap driver see this note in the WinPcap FAQ. It might not be desirable that any local user can also capture from the network while the driver is loaded, but this can't be currently circumvented. Note: Simply stopping Wireshark won't stop the WinPcap driver!

Once the driver is loaded, every local user can capture from it until it's stopped again. The WinPcap driver (called NPF) is loaded by Wireshark when it starts to capture live data. If you are running inside a virtual machine, make sure the host allows you to put the interface into promiscous mode.

GNU/Linux distributions, Wireshark is installed using a package manager.Platform-Specific information about capture privileges.
