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Can You Capture Packets That Are Being Blocked On Your System?

I get this question a lot and surprised I have yet to address it. Someone asked “will Wireshark capture the packets my firewall blocks.  Unfortunately, the short answer is “it depends on a few variables”.


I thought it would be helpful if I showed you how I would answer this question.

The methodology is pretty simple.


Get a baseline:

-          Disable firewall

-          Start capture with an icmp capture filter

-          Have another computer ping you

-          Stop capture and review results

Test

-          Enable firewall

-          Start capture with an icmp capture filter

-          Have another computer ping you

-          Stop capture and review results


Don’t worry about what I got, determine how your computer behaves.


Enjoy



 

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