Setting Up and Obtaining a Wireshark Capture

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Setting Up Wireshark

Install Wireshark on the device that is running your PBX or switch. This will give you the greatest visibility as you will be able to see communication between VI and your PBX as well as your PBX and your extensions.

Obtaining a Capture Windows:
Once you have Wireshark installed:

Open Wireshark

• Select Capture > Options

• Select the Interface you wish to capture on

• Select Start

• To stop select the Stop button

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Linux:
Instructions vary for capturing using Linux. You would type the following command in the CLI (without the tags):
tshark -i eth1 net 64.136.173.31 -w test.pcap

In this example, –i eth1 represents the interface you wish to capture on and host represents the IP address of the traffic you wish to capture.