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Traffic capture from a mikrotik device to wireshark

Today, for troubleshooting purposes, I needed to capture traffic from a Mikrotik wireless access point that I have. Mikrotik devices have a build-in tool called Packet sniffer, which does exactly what I need but what if I had these captures on a remote PC ?

Well we can accomplish this and have the captures on wireshark. All we need is network connectivity, of course, between the Mikrotik device and the PC running wireshark. I am using wireshark 2.2.7 by the way.

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