is it possible that Wireshark is slowing down my network application, when im sniffing udp packets? asked 14 Nov '12, 06:06  alexg |
One Answer:
No. Wireshark is a passive network analysis tool, which means it does not interfere with the network at all - unless, of course, you use network name resolution, which leads to DNS reverse pointer queries. To avoid any traffic coming from the PC running Wireshark you can disable all protocol bindings on the network card you're capturing on. That way the PC cannot communicate anymore, but Wireshark can still record incoming packets. answered 14 Nov '12, 06:11  Jasper ♦♦ |
is Wireshark running on the same system as your "network application"? If so, the system resources that wireshark needs (CPU, RAM, disk) will be unavailable for your "network application" and then it might affect the performance of that application.