Wireshark is the world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer. It lets you see what’s happening on your network at a microscopic level and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many commercial and non-profit enterprises, government agencies, and educational institutions.
TI Packet Sniffer users: TI recommends installing Wireshark first, so it gets detected and configured automatically during the setup of SmartRF Packet Sniffer 2.
Installation
Follow the next steps to install Wireshark:
- Download the latest stable version for Wireshark 3.0.x.
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- Install Wireshark 3.0.x using the default installation path.
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- Install all the additional components.
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We recommend using the latest stable version of Npcap. Optionally, you can use the Npcap version shipped with the installer.
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- Your Wireshark installation is ready.
SmartRF Packet Sniffer 2 setup
To transfer data from SmartRF Packet Sniffer 2 Agent to Wireshark, follow the next steps:
- Verify that TI's SmartRF Packet Sniffer 2 plugins were installed in Wireshark in the Plugins tab in the About Wireshark window ( Help -> About Wireshark )
- ti802154ge-x(86/64)-2x.dll
- tirpi-x(86/64)-2x.dll
- ti-ble-packet-info-x(86/64)-2x.dll
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- Verify that SmartRF Packet Sniffer 2 is configured to use Pipes in Options -> Data Output
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- Make sure the option Use Pipe(Vista or higher) is checked.
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Run Wireshark with the following arguments:
wireshark.exe -i\\.\pipe\tiwspc_data -k -
Optionally, it is recommended to create a Windows Desktop shortcut to speed up this process. Open the properties dialog of a Wireshark shortcut and modify the Target field as follows:
"C:\<path>\Wireshark.exe" -i\\.\pipe\tiwspc_data -k
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- Wireshark should be ready to capture packets through the SmartRF Packet Sniffer Agent.