[Winpcap-users] Traffic from VMWare application with WinPcap

Okraszewski, Marcin Marcin.Okraszewski at pl.compuware.com
Fri Aug 22 08:26:44 GMT 2008


If you are using VMWare Server there is a commandline tool to make captures on VMWare virtual networks. In Linux it is vmnet-sniffer. You may try this.

Marcin


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From: winpcap-users-bounces at winpcap.org [mailto:winpcap-users-bounces at winpcap.org] On Behalf Of Gianluca Varenni
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 8:48 PM
To: winpcap-users at winpcap.org
Subject: Re: [Winpcap-users] Traffic from VMWare application with WinPcap

I think VmWare uses an NDIS Intermediate (IM) driver sitting below the 
WinPcap driver. In this case you won't see the guest packets as they are 
managed by the IM driver sitting below WinPcap. But you can probably capture 
the VM traffic on the virtual network interfaces created by VMware itself.

I don't know if it's possible with WinPcap to sniff the VM traffic. It's 
definitely feasible, but I guess you would need another NDIS intermediate 
driver sitting below the VMware one.

Have a nice day
GV

----- Original Message ----- 
From: mlimade-vm03 at yahoo.com.br
To: winpcap-users at winpcap.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 4:57 PM
Subject: [Winpcap-users] Traffic from VMWare application with WinPcap


  Hi,

  I have tried an application of traffic monitor by application based on
WinPCap library, but I have a special need, that is detect the traffic from
a virtual machine based on VMWare technology. I install the traffic monitor
inside a Windows XP Virtual machine and the traffic inside is detected, but
I was expecting that if I install it in the VM host machine the monitor 
detects
the traffic how if it come from the VMWare Player application, but it not
happens, like no traffic exists. The VMWare player create virtual networks,
but the real traffic is bridged to real NIC and should be detected, or not?
Maybe, VMWare Player use an unpredictable way to access network.
There a way to detect it? Because I need to know how much traffic each
VM is using amog many VM's without put a traffic monitor por each one,
but only in the host machine.

Thanks for advance

Mauricio Lima





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