From b9a2511ea80341a5b7186dc49835e4173c4437e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luca Deri Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 19:58:41 +0200 Subject: Initial Wireshark nDPI integration --- wireshark/README.md | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) create mode 100644 wireshark/README.md (limited to 'wireshark/README.md') diff --git a/wireshark/README.md b/wireshark/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1811c663e --- /dev/null +++ b/wireshark/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +# nDPI Wireshark Plugin + +## Introduction + +nDPI can provide Wireshark protocol dissection to complement internal protocol decoding. In order to do this, the ndpiReader application is used to provide Wireshark nDPI protocol dissection, and a Wireshark plugin interprets nDPI information. + +## Installation + +- Copy the ndpiReader application (it is located under nDPI/example) to the Extcap path. See Wireshark -> About menu for identifying the extcap directory. Under OSX it is usually /Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/MacOS/extcap +- Copy the ndpi.lua plugin under ~/.wireshark/plugins (or in the global Wireshark plugins directory) + +## Usage + +At Wireshark startup you will find a new extcap interface named "nDPI interface". Select that interface and specify an interface name (for live capture) or a pcap file path (for reading packets from a pcap file). You can choose a nDPI protocol list from the dropdown menu in case you want Wireshark to dissect only protocols of the specified nDPI application protocol. + +During capture the ndpiReader plugin will pass Wireshark the nDPI protocol information adding an ethernet packet trailer that contains nDPI information. The lua plugin interprets this information and it displays it in the Wireshark GUI. + +## nDPI Packet Filtering + +As nDPI is natively integrated into Wireshark, you can filter packets using the usual filtering mechanism. Example use "ndpi.protocol.name==BitTorrent" to filter all BitTorrent traffic. -- cgit v1.2.3