

Wireshark (formally Ethereal) is freely-available software that interfaces with an 802.11 client card and passively captures (“sniffs”) 802.11 packets being transmitted within a wireless LAN. You can, however, use Npcap or a raw socket sniffer like RawCap to capture localhost network traffic in Windows. The following page from “Windows network services internals” explains why: The missing network loopback interface. You can’t capture on the local loopback address 127.0. Using a router, open browser and enter router IP address > Enter > locate Device List > Status, or Bandwidth or Network Monitoring.To locate your router’s IP address, in Windows, open a Command Prompt and run ipconfig.This article explains how to monitor network traffic using your router or Wireshark. How do you use Wireshark to see who is using up the network?.


