What this book covers

Chapter 1, Installing Wireshark 2, teaches you how to install Wireshark on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Chapter 2, Getting Started with Wireshark, tells you about what's new in Wireshark 2. It will also teach you how to capture traffic and how to save, export, annotate, and print packages.

Chapter 3, Filtering Traffic, teaches you about BPF syntax and how to create one. It further explains how to use BPF to apply it as a capture filter and reduce the packets, how to create and use display filters, and how to follow streams—both TCP and UDP.

Chapter 4, Customizing Wireshark, explains how to apply preferences in Wireshark and customize them. You will learn how to create profiles for different analysis requirements.

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