My host is a Mac OS X 10.8 machine with a virtual Windows 8 residing in Parallels 8. The Mac's ethernet address is 172.168.10.100, the Win machine shows 172.168.10.115 and is "pc-rrupp-win8.testdomain.com". Parallel's is setup to use "bridged network over Ethernet". On the Windows machine, I'm running a web service which is called from a Mono C# application that is running on the Mac host. I would like to capture all the reply XML that is sent back by the Windows' service. However all I get is: nothing :-( I tried to use the ethernet adapter, as well as the loopback device but filtering for 172.168.10.115 does not show any responses. However, I can see the response in my Mac's C# application. Is there maybe a sample around that would show the usage of Wireshark in combination with Parallels? asked 20 May '13, 09:44  Krumelur |
One Answer:
You could run Wireshark in your Windows 8 virtual machine and capture the traffic there.
What was your display filter for this? BTW: Can you post the output of the following command?
Regards answered 20 May '13, 11:50  Kurt Knochner ♦ edited 20 May '13, 11:55 |
I'll try that. The reason why I wanted to do it on the Mac: I'm hunting a bug here that has to do with corrupt network traffic (deserialization fails). I tried with Fiddler on Windows but as soon as I do that to analyze the traffic, it starts working. But maybe Wireshark is less "intrusive".
Fiddler is a HTTP/HTTPS proxy. Usually it will simply forward the request, but in certain situations it will change the communication behavior. Wireshark is 'non-intrusive' (even on Windows) and it will show the whole communication, as it is sent to the NIC. So, you should be able to troubleshoot your problem with Wireshark on Windows.