The techniques introduced under this section will provide you with the basic knowledge of what you will be dealing with, before diving deep into the packet analysis; these techniques are essential to understand from the packet analysis perspective. These mostly fall under the Statistics menu under the Menu bar as shown in the following figure:
Numerous options under the Statistics category
To access the Summary window in Wireshark, go to Statistics in the Menu bar and select Summary. The Summary window includes the following:
File details
Time details
Capture details
Display details
Important details that can be deduced from here are:
Capture time and duration
Version details of operating system and Wireshark
Capture interface
Any capture/display filter used
Average packets/sec, average packet size
Average bytes/sec