While troubleshooting a Zabbix communication problem I realized that there was no Zabbix protocol dissector in Wireshark. Long story short: I wrote my own dissector in Lua as an exercise. Actually, I wrote two dissectors, one for Zabbix passive agent communication (port 10050, the not-so-json-style protocol) and one for other Zabbix components (port 10051). You […]
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Wireshark and 802.11 Data in Capture Files
Once again I was asked to get involved when a customer had problems with an application. I won’t go into application or problem details here but the process eventually involved capturing traffic on a customer laptop to see what was actually happening. The consultant doing the capture was not using Wireshark as I would have […]