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On top of this, Wireshark allows you to not only monitor traffic in real-time but also to save it to a file for later inspection. To do this, they rely on software programs called network packet analyzers, with Wireshark perhaps being the most popular and used due to its versatility and easiness of use. It is the responsibility of network engineers and system administrators alike to monitor and inspect the packets for security and troubleshooting purposes. If you are a Kali or regular Linux user but your primary box is a Windows machine, WSL2 can surprise you.In any packet-switched network, packets represent units of data that are transmitted between computers. This second functionality can be seen in Figure 4 where I have opened a port with netcat in Kali (1) and connected from Windows machine with powercat pointing directly to localhost (2).įigure 4: Port in Kali are available to Windows as localhost

Every port of WSL2 is automatically exposed to the host machine through loopback, so if you open a port in your WSL2 you can access from Windows using localhost, as if the port is opened from a Windows running program.

Transferring data between the two is really simple as is simple to transfer files from the two system from command line

WSL2 is highly integrated in your windows environment you can access Kali file system Read/Write from share \WSL$ while Kali can access Windows file with /mnt/c.

Now the usual question: which are the benefit of using WSL2 instead of using a real Virtual Machine? I can list at least two:

The overall experience is really good, if you have a good internet connection you have a * Kali Linux running in minutes with absolutely no problem. As an example here is a full screen session running Wireshark The beauty of xrdp is that you are not enabled to resolution restriction you have usually on your Linux Hyper-V virtualized environment, so you can run at full screen with absolutely no problem.