
It supports the same options as Wireshark. TShark is a terminal-oriented version of Wireshark designed to capture and display packets when an interactive user interface isn't necessary or available. It enables you to see what's happening on your network at a microscopic level. It lets you interactively browse packet data from a live network or a previously saved capture file. Here’s some tips for using Airtool for Mac OS X too.Wireshark is a GUI network protocol analyzer. That’s a few quick tips on how you can deal with network troubleshooting in Chromebook. If the Chromebook is all you have available, you can upload the pcap to CloudShark for analysis.

You’ll get a pcap file complete with Radiotap headers if the hardware supports it saved in the Downloads folder which you can send to another machine to do analysis. Once you follow the instructions under “packet capture”, the capture file will end up in the Downloads folder (thanks to Jim for the shoutout here): If you’re doing Wifi network troubleshooting using Chromebooks, Jim Vajda of has an excellent how-to, including how to take packet captures and send them to CloudShark.

The full command is: packet_capture -device

In Developer Mode you can enter the BASH shell (Ctrl+Alt+T > shell) and type “packet_capture” to start capturing outgoing packets (reference ). This post from the Chromebook management team explains how to do so in developer mode: Luckily there are a few ways you can get a network capture in Chrome OS. CloudShark is particularly helpful in these cases because installing Wireshark can be difficult or out of the expertise of those using systems like Chrome OS, particularly in education where Chrome OS has become very popular. We often get requests from users of Google’s Chrome OS, the operating system installed on the Chromebook series of portable computers, on how to troubleshoot Wifi, apps, or websites.
