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Wireshark showing multiple Local Area Connections


When I am running Wireshark I can see 4 Local Area Connections on a machine. I don't have physical access to the machine so I cannot check the LAN ports on the machine. Here is the screenshot of wireshark.

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Now when I looking at system properties I am able to see only two LAN connections.

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My questions is, how can I check total number of LAN ports on Windows 7? Also I can see activity in all LAN Connections together in WireShark, how can I come to know that my packets are going through which connection?

Three out of four connections have identical packet transfer graph.

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Solution

  • If I'm not mistaken you Virtualbox host-only adapter and VMware Virtual Ethernet Atapters are running on local host also.