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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

Translation


I think this amazing and pretty cool feature is not able to gain limelight, so I want you to know that Wireshark offers you to change the language to any other language of your choice, for example, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese (Mandarin actually), Polish, French, and so on, and this feature has been there their since version 1.99.

Giving the privilege to users to change the default language of the application to their native language is all about personalizing user experience while working with the application. If users feel more connected and comfortable with the application, then they will definitelybecome more productive.

Let's see, with the help of an example, how we can change our system's default language to Japanese (launched with version 2.0). Follow the given steps to achieve the same:

  1. Navigate to Wireshark | Preferences (Windows users need to navigate to View | Edit | Preferences):

  2. Now, choose Japanese from the drop-down list at the bottom, and click on OK:

  3. Now, you probably...