Wireshark on remote host through SSH

I was trying to find a way to capture the network interface traffic on a remote server, just to see what (or who!) messed up the Web Services based communication. I didn’t have to search too long, because my favorite capturing software, Wireshark, can listen on a named pipe. So, below you can find the simplest solution I found (SSH + FIFO) based on this tutorial: On the client side (my computer – GNU/Linux) type:...

April 22, 2011 · 1 min