Measuring Bandwidth using Wireshark

Posted on by David Vassallo

Update: For easy bandwidth visualization from packet captures, check out a web-based pcap parser we wrote: https://medium.com/cybersift/the-cybersift-packet-capture-parser-bandwidth-usage-43fe479ecaf0 There are of course several ways of measuring bandwidth usage from a particular PC. But when it comes to granularity and detail, almost nothing beats wireshark. Wireshark has several ways of showing the bandwidth being used, each method displays the … Continue reading Measuring Bandwidth using Wireshark

Virtual Box Shared Folder between WinXP host and Ubuntu guest

Posted on by David Vassallo

This command really saved me a lot of time. Its easy enough sharing folders when both the host and guest machine are windows (Network Neighbourhood is used) But, when the host is windows XP and the guest is ubuntu you need the command: sudo mount.vboxsf [share_name] [directory - mount point eg /mnt/share/] So in my … Continue reading Virtual Box Shared Folder between WinXP host and Ubuntu guest