User Guide

Capturing Live Network Data
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Figure 4.6. The "Remote Capture Settings" dialog box
You can set the following parameters in this dialog:
Do not capture own RPCAP
traffic
This option sets a capture filter so that the traffic flowing back
from the Remote Packet Capture Protocol service to Wireshark isn't
captured as well and also send back. The recursion in this saturates
the link with duplicate traffic.
You only should switch this off when capturing on an interface
other then the interface connecting back to Wireshark.
Use UDP for data transfer Remote capture control and data flows over a TCP connection. This
option allows you to choose an UDP stream for data transfer.
Sampling option None This option instructs the Remote Packet Capture Protocol service
to send back all captured packets which have passed the capture
filter. This is usually not a problem on a remote capture session with
sufficient bandwidth.
Sampling option 1 of x packets This option limits the Remote Packet Capture Protocol service to
send only a sub sampling of the captured data, in terms of number