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Mastering Wireshark

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Mastering Wireshark

Overview of this book

Wireshark is a popular and powerful tool used to analyze the amount of bits and bytes that are flowing through a network. Wireshark deals with the second to seventh layer of network protocols, and the analysis made is presented in a human readable form. Mastering Wireshark will help you raise your knowledge to an expert level. At the start of the book, you will be taught how to install Wireshark, and will be introduced to its interface so you understand all its functionalities. Moving forward, you will discover different ways to create and use capture and display filters. Halfway through the book, you’ll be mastering the features of Wireshark, analyzing different layers of the network protocol, looking for any anomalies. As you reach to the end of the book, you will be taught how to use Wireshark for network security analysis and configure it for troubleshooting purposes.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Mastering Wireshark
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 2. Filtering Our Way in Wireshark

This chapter will talk about different filtering options available in Wireshark, namely, capture and display filters. We will also look at how to create and use different profiles. The following are the topics we will cover in this chapter:

  • An introduction to capture filters

  • Why and how to use capture filters

  • Lab up—capture filters

  • An introduction to display filters

  • Why and how to use display filters

  • Lab up—display filters

  • Colorizing traffic

  • Creating a new Wireshark profile(s)

  • Lab up—profiles

I hope you are ready to start analyzing packets using different filtering options present in Wireshark and to reuse the filters that we previously created in a user-defined profile. I will be guiding you with a technique to filter packets based on certain expressions, which we will create using different primitives that are available.

Before we go ahead and start creating awesome filters, I want to mention one more interesting tool that is used to find packets: the find...