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Crashing program

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Hello

Please excuse my ignorance I'm pretty new to wireshark..

I have a piece of sortware that is crashing and I was wondering is it possible to do a packet capture to see why this may be happening?

Thanks

Daniel

asked 08 May '14, 01:59

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That could be a difficult task, and may not get you any results, but it is possible. You can capture on the PC the software is running and then run the application. If you know what ports it is using you can then check if you can see any packets to that port that would explain why the application crashes - if the application uses TCP, look for Reset packets and find out if they're a cause of the crash.

answered 08 May '14, 06:55

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