Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] my traffic not captured
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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 10:44:05 -0700
On Mar 19, 2014, at 7:08 AM, "David Sheats, Friendly Computer Service" <david.sheats@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>      I am writing a program that makes use of Windows Sockets, and I thought I might use Wireshark to watch the traffic go back and forth across my network.  However, the Shark doesn't seem to capture the packets generated by my program. 
>      I send data from the client computer to the server computer using a regular TCP connection onto port 2022 of the server.  I know the server is receiving the information, because it is able to print it on the screen.
>      Wireshark seems to be capturing other data just fine, such as HTTP traffic on port 80, and VNC traffic (I use that to fiddle with my server so I don't have to walk back and forth between my computers).

Is it capturing other traffic *between the client and server in question*?