Take Packet Captures
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Take Packet Captures

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Take Packet Captures

All Palo Alto Networks firewalls allow you to take packet captures (pcaps) of traffic that traverses the management interface and network interfaces on the firewall. When taking packet captures on the dataplane, you may need to Disable Hardware Offload to ensure that the firewall captures all traffic.
Packet capture can be very CPU intensive and can degrade firewall performance. Only use this feature when necessary and make sure you turn it off after you have collected the required packets.