The new driver installer version 1.0.7 will do this automatically while the one I had (1.0.6) didn’t yet.
The ProfiShark 1G appears as a capture card in Wireshark/tshark/dumpcap as soon as you installed the ProfiShark driver and restarted the NPF driver to have it detect the new device (either by rebooting or doing a “net stop npf” and “net start npf”). There are also a few minor disadvantages, if you want to call them that. While this may seem odd it has a couple of advantages (as long as the PC has a USB3 port, which should be pretty common by now). Other than all the TAPs I own it is unique in the way it transports the network frames to the PC, because instead of RJ54 based network cards it uses a USB3 connection. The ProfiShark 1G is a pretty small and portable aggregation TAP, which means that it combines receive and transmit (RX/TX) of a link into a single stream of packets which is then captured by the analyzer. In the end, the nice people at Comcraft offered to send me a sample to see how it performed, and I am always happy to get my hands on interesting capture solutions to see how they perform. I had used 100Mbit USB2 ProfiTap devices before and had some issues with it on Linux, so I was a bit skeptical towards the new ProfiShark 1G as well. The ProfiShark series also includes other essential features, such as packet slicing, statistics, configuration options, and high-performance capture to disk, through our own ProfiShark Manager application.A while ago I wrote a post for LoveMyTool about how I managed to power my Garland Gigabit TAP with a USB cable, which got me into a discussion about the ProfiTap USB3 device on Linkedin. The packets can in turn be analyzed with Wireshark or any network analyzer, where ProfiShark’s hardware filtering capabilities save you time and disk space. Powered by USB 3.0, ProfiShark 1G captures high fidelity network traffic, with high resolution hardware timestamping, and packets of all sizes and types.
This helps you capture network data without impacting the security or performance of the network. ProfiShark 1G is non-intrusive, undetectable by the network, and leaves the original traffic unaltered. It is a portable network TAP that provides fail-safe access to networks for monitoring purposes, as well as long-term traffic collection. ProfiShark 1G is designed to enable field engineers to quickly get in the path of network packets. Portable Traffic Capture and Troubleshooting Tool Security monitoring in high throughput environments.Quickly isolating cloud-based application issues.Network monitoring in multi-tenant networks.
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