Raspberry Pi - Preparing to do captures with Wireshark and Sharktap HD

As a part of my Raspberry Pi series, I have been looking for an easy way to start showing packet captures as a part of some of what I have been doing in my other posts in the series. In doing some search for an option for an affordable easy to use tap best suited for the Raspberry Pi. I found a device by the name of SharkTap from midBit Technologies, LLC. For $70, it is ideally suited for learning how to do capture captures and an ethernet tap at the same time. One of the challenges I have always dealt with is always having to exclude or filter out traffic that is being generated by the network card in the laptop or computer that I am using for capturing. In the YouTube video that accompanies this post shows a way for Mac and Windows computers to disable the ip stack and still be able to use the network card for capturing. I also show how to get the information on how to build a capture filter to also exclude this traffic as well. To see more of my posts about the Raspberry Pi, please go to http://www.ronnutter.com/category/raspberry-pi/