How to capture ICMP packets instead of ICMPv6 packets via ping? - wireshark

I am trying to ping a host and capture the packets using Wireshark. I need to view the results in ICMP so I can view the IP addresses, but Wireshark keeps capturing the packets in ICMPv6 and as a result I can only see MAC addresses. Is there a way to change that?
I've tried looking in the options of my capture interfaces and didn't really find anything helpful. I'm not sure if it's a Wireshark issue or an issue with my system.

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I am new in Wireshark. My question is about Telnet and Eclipse. I have a program who communicate with Telnet. As you see in picture, When I write "a" in Telnet, [97] can be seen in Eclipse console as ASCII.
When i check Wireshark, I can not see any traffic on Telnet. When I filter as "ip.dst==10.10.10.12 && tcp.dstport==5000" or "tcp.port==23" or "Telnet", there is no data in wireshark. I guess, there is a problem in wireshark to see Telnet communication. How can i solve this problem?
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I assume your machine's IP address is 10.10.10.12 and that you are telneting from your machine to itself, right?
I don't know Windows, especially how network data are captured by a program like Wireshark, so I may be completely wrong. But I bet Wireshark on Windows can only see packets that actually use your network adapter (WLAN), i.e. which come from or go to an external machine. Traffic that stay inside your machine is probably invisible to it and to any program of that kind (because it's an limitation of the OS).
Instead of telneting to your WLAN IP address, you may try telneting to localhost (127.0.0.x) and make Wireshark spy on the loopback interface.

Contiki OS: Set Promiscuous Mode and receive all UDP Packets

i'm trying to do the following:
a) Set Contiki in Promiscuous Mode.
b) Then retrieve all UDP and RPL packets send, not only to current node but also between two other nodes within communication range.
I have the following code:
NETSTACK_RADIO.set_value(RADIO_PARAM_RX_MODE, 0);
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where receiver is an appropriate callback function. I am able to collect UDP packets send to the current node, but still unable to receive packets send between other nodes in my communication range.
Setting the RADIO_PARAM_RX_MODE only controls which packets the radio driver filters out. There are multiple layers in an OS network stack, of which the radio driver is only the first one. The next ones are RDC and MAC, which still filter out packets addressed to other nodes, and there is no API to disable that.
The solution is to either modify the MAC to disable dropping of packets not addressed to the local mode or write your own simple MAC. The latter is what the Sensniff (Contiki packet sniffer) does - see its README and source code. By the way, if you just want to log all received packets, just use Sensniff!

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When I enable Wireshark capture on my laptop, the application becomes slow because it captures all the packets. I am running about 100 Mbps of traffic with different packet sizes.
Let's say, I only need to capture rtp,sip packets and ignore the other UDP, TCP, DHCP etc.
How can I do it using Wireshark?
Note: I know the filter option to view only the packets I need, but the request is to only capture rtp packets
From the Wireshark SIP wiki page:
Capture Filter
You cannot directly filter SIP protocols while capturing. However, if you know the UDP or TCP or port used (see above), you can filter on that one.
For help with writing capture filters, refer to the pcap-filter man page.

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How can I use wireshark to capture all the packets destined to the router. I want to run wireshark on the router. Is this possible?
No, it's not possible to run wireshark on the router.
What you can do, however, is run wireshark on one of the computers in the network in sniffer/monitor mode and filter out all the packets with destination address set to address of the router. Note, if you want to capture also the wired packets to your router, this won't work.

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I have an application that is designed and working that is receiving UDP broadcasts on a port. The application has been working just fine, but I have wanted to compare the packets received by the application with a Wireshark capture. I'm trying to make sure that I'm capturing as many of the packets as possible with minimal data loss.
I initially thought that I'd run Wireshark and compare the raw packets captured against the packets shown in our application. However, when I run Wireshark, the packets are never captured at the IP layer for that port. I see other traffic from the server, but I never see Wireshare packets for this specific port.
The application continues to capture the data just fine. When I look at the IP src/dest fields, the src looks correct, 10.12.10.42, however the destination IP address is 0.0.0.0. I would have expected something like 255.255.255.255 instead for the destination address.
I don't have access to the application that is broadcasting the data, but I did write a quick sample UDP broadcaster and receiver to make sure I my expectations were correct. the sample application worked as expected.
Any ideas on why a UDP broadcast would be received by an application, but not show up in a Wireshark capture? Does Wireshark ignore an address like 0.0.0.0 and not capture it all?
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